1. Inventions made by civil servants or public employees in the performance either of tasks involving an inventive mission corresponding to their duties, or of studies or research explicitly entrusted to them, belong to the public person on whose behalf they carry out the said tasks, studies or research. However, if the public entity decides not to proceed with the exploitation of the invention, the civil servant or public agent who is the author thereof may dispose of the economic rights attached thereto, under the conditions laid down in an agreement concluded with the public entity.
2. All other inventions belong to the civil servant or agent.
However, the employing public person shall have the right, under the conditions and within the time limits laid down in this sub-section, to have all or part of the rights attached to the patent protecting the invention assigned to it where the invention is made by a civil servant or agent :
Either in the course of the performance of his duties;
Or in the field of the activities of the public body concerned;
Or through the knowledge or use of techniques, means specific to that body or data procured by it.