It is Götebogs-Posten that tells a complicated affair that had its origin about ten years ago. Last year, sued the two former students coming to Chalmers Volvo Cars with requirements for each SEK 8.7 million for inventions in 2004 and 2005 which led to the patent for the Group and which since 2007 is used in a system for detecting driver fatigue.
The two students had his professional domicile at Volvo Cars a decade ago because they performed their thesis in the company. The core of the dispute is that the two engineers require financial compensation to those under his thesis contributed to the system, dubbed Driver Alert.
According to the Swedish Engineers is expected Driver Alert provide Volvo Cars revenue at around a billion. Students coming to Chalmers requirements can thus be seen as modest. This requirement is equivalent to approximately 1.7 percent of the receipts, writes Göteborgs-Posten.
– What is special in this case is that the persons were not employed when they did the inventions. They performed a thesis and then applies not Inventors Agreement, says Karin Lundin, a union lawyer at the Swedish Engineers and representatives of the two engineers, told the newspaper.
The question of compensation to students who invents new solutions as part of their thesis has never been tried before.
According to Karin Lundin will also see that project workers have rights, perhaps greater rights to compensation other than as an employee.
– If you have not agreed on what applies is the invention graduate work’s own and there is a right to market compensation.
Additional contentious has been the legal authority to decide the case. Gothenburg District Court recently decided that the dispute shall be settled in that particular district court. Volvo Cars had demanded that the dispute would be settled in the industry Inventors Board.
Volvo Cars would not comment on the matter as long as the process is ongoing.
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