Download or read book The Employed Inventor in the United States: R & D Policies, Law and Practice written by Fredrik Neumeyer and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1971 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Monograph on the legal status of employee-engineers, scientists and technicians, who in the course of their duties are responsible for inventions - reviews the historical background of patent law and government policy concerning copyright and the assignment of ownership and examines employment policy, labour relations, working conditions and collective agreements concerning researchers in industry, public enterprise and the university. Bibliography pp. 497 to 508 and statistical tables.