The right to a patent belongs to the inventor or his heir, to the employer if an invention (utility model) has been made by an employee in the course of his official duties or of a specific task entrusted to him by his employer, to the inventor’s or the employer’s successor in title.
Where more than one inventor has independently made the same invention (utility model), the right to a patent belongs to the applicant whose application enjoys the earliest filing date or, where priority is claimed, the earliest priority date.
 Where an invention (utility model) is the joint achievement of more than one person, those persons enjoy the same rights to a patent.
The right of authorship belongs to the inventor; it constitutes an inalienable personal right and enjoys protection without limitation in time.