Unilever has been ordered to pay £2m to a former employee responsible for advances in diabetes testing, in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that could “fundamentally change” employee-inventor compensation cases.
In a unanimous 23 October judgement, Lord Kitchen upheld the appeal of professor Ian Shanks to claw his fair share of the “outstanding benefit” the British-Dutch FMCG giant had received from his capillary fill diabetes testing device, invented in 1982. The ruling overturns a previous decision by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), the High Court…
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