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Shanks v Unilever Plc & Ors - employee's right to benefit from inventions

A literal interpretation of Patents Act 1977 s.41(2) could deny an employee of a subsidiary company the right to benefit from an invention where the ownership of the patent is transferred for a nominal sum by the subsidiary to its parent company.  Such a literal interpretation is wrong.

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