Article 163 Federal Labor Law

The attribution of the rights to the name and to the property and exploitation of the inventions made in the enterprise shall be governed by the following norms:

I.The inventor shall have the right for his name to appear as author of the invention;

II.When the employee devotes himself to works of investigation or of improvement of the procedures used in the enterprise, on account of the latter, the property of the invention and the right to the exploitation of the patent shall correspond to the employer. The inventor, independently of the wage he may have received, shall have the right to a complementary compensation, which shall be fixed by agreement of the parties or by the Court when the importance of the invention and the benefits it may report to the employer are not in proportion to the wage received by the inventor, and

III.In any other case, the property of the invention shall correspond to the person or persons who made it, but the employer shall have a preferential right, in equality of circumstances, to the exclusive use or to the acquisition of the invention and of the corresponding patents.