A court ruling on a Cold War-era law has Draconian implications for private patent holders who quit public service, cautions a lawyer in the case. The Court of Appeal ruled the 1954 Act requires that employees report inventions to the Crown even after they’ve retired from paid work: ‘A lot of people out there have no idea they are still ‘public servants’, and why would they?
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