Sec. 4-61a. Inventions and discoveries by state employees.
Sec. 4-61a. Inventions and discoveries by state employees. As used in this section, "invention" shall mean any invention or discovery and shall be divided into the
following categories: (1) Any invention conceived by one state employee solely, or by
state employees jointly; (2) any invention conceived by one or more state employees
jointly with one or more other persons; (3) any invention conceived by one or more
persons not state employees. The state shall be entitled to own, or to participate in the
ownership of, and to place in the custody of the state to the extent of such ownership,
any invention on the following conditions: (a) The state shall be entitled to own the
entire right, title and interest in and to any invention in category (1), in any instance in
which such invention is conceived in the course of performance of customary or assigned
duties of the employee inventor or inventors, or in which the invention emerges from
any research, development or other program of the state, or is conceived or developed
wholly or partly at the expense of the state, or with the aid of its equipment, facilities
or personnel. In each such instance, the employee inventor shall be deemed to be obligated, by reason of his employment by the state, to disclose his invention fully and
promptly to an authorized executive of the state; to assign to the state the entire right,
title and interest in and to each invention in category (1); to execute instruments of
assignment to that effect; to execute such proper patent applications on such invention
as may be requested by an authorized executive of the state, and to give all reasonable
aid in the prosecution of such patent applications and the procurement of patents thereon;
(b) the state shall have the rights defined in subsection (a) of this section with respect
to inventions in category (2), to the extent to which an employee has or employees have
disposable interest therein; and to the same extent the employee or employees shall be
obligated as defined in said subsection (a); (c) the state shall have no right to inventions
in category (3), except as may be otherwise provided in contracts, express or implied,
between the state and those entitled to the control of inventions in category (3). This
section shall not apply to employees or inventions covered by sections 10a-110 to 10a-110g, inclusive.
(1959, P.A. 515.)