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Recently several important judicial rulings have been concluded in relation to the in-service inventions of employees in Japan. The employees who are dissatisfied with the amount of remuneration provided by the their employers have filed lawsuits against the companies after retire, asking for the equivalent or due remuneration under the Japanese patent law. And the total amount of the remuneration becomes enormous. Through their harsh experiences of the lawsuits related to the remuneration for in-service inventions, the Japanese companies have begun to set up a plan which amends their in- house provisions on the compensation for employees' inventions including raising the level of remuneration. The Japanese patent law system and the practices on the remuneration for in-service inventions in the past are not that different from the current those of Korea. In this point, a series of judicial rulings and experience of Japan on the remuneration for employees' inventions so far throw a lot of implications on the practices of Korea. Therefore this study investigates the trend of compensation for the employees' inventions through a general perspective analysis focusing on the recent judicial cases on remuneration for in-service inventions and the companies' response to them in Japan. So this trend find out a suggestive point under condition of presently domestic remuneration for in-service inventions. And it investigates the level of remuneration for in-service inventions through actual condition of analysis, also countermeasures as well as many problems which could be suggested on domestic remuneration for in-service inventions system in the future.