Court Awards Compensation to Employee Inventors of Outstanding Patents

In an unprecedented decision, the English Court has awarded two research scientists, Drs Kelly and Chiu, inventors of the highly successful radioactive imaging agent, Myoview, compensation under Section 40 of the Patents Act. The Court ruled that the patents on Myoview were of outstanding benefit to the employer, Amersham (now GE Healthcare Limited), such benefit being estimated to be in the order of £50 million and that a fair share of that benefit was £1million for Dr Kelly and £500,000 for Dr Chiu.

James Duncan Kelly and Kwok Wai Chiu v. GE Healthcare Limited.pdf (60 KB)