The commentary provides solutions to all essential compensation scenarios. It reveals the partially unpublished case law of the arbitration board for employee inventions, as well as the jurisprudence of the Federal Court of Justice and the lower courts. Together with the parallel commentary on the Employee Invention Act, the authors have created a unique, self-contained work on employee invention law that shapes practice like few others. The commentary is structured according to the official guidelines for the compensation of employee inventions, which aim to determine appropriate compensation for service inventions. The completely revised new edition has been thoroughly updated, taking into account the numerous developments in case law, arbitration practice, and literature. Key focuses of the new edition: Compensation assessment according to the applicable standards.