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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 11:35 AM EDT |
| There's a few articles around that should help you.
Here's one which is pretty
easy to read and, basically, if it's not a part of your normal duties then it's
yours. Normal duties will include those listed in your contract and also any
duties that you've taken on during your employment - either through your own
initiative or by request.
UK employer files for US Patent on business method (pdf).
This one is strange... employee creates a business method - unpatentable in the
UK - which the employer then patents in the USA.
Here's another site.
IANAL, but my comment is if
you think you've created something:
outside of work and it has nothing to
do with your duties at work then it's yours.
outside of work and it has
something to do with your duties work then seek professional legal
advice.
during work and it has nothing to do with your duties work then seek
professional legal advice.
during work and it has something to do with your
duties, then it's your employers'.
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| Authored by: stegu on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 11:40 AM EDT |
As a university researcher in Sweden, I have the
exact opposite deal: anything I create is my own,
even if it is done during work hours. The university
has full rights to *use* anything I create during
work hours (whatever that is - I mostly don't have
my bright ideas during regular office hours),
but my employer has no legal standing to assume
any ownership or patent rights to any inventions
I might possibly come up with.
This is the default only for university employees,
not for anyone else in government employment or
in the private enterprise, and it is being debated
whether it is fair to the universities or not,
but last time I looked, these were the rules.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
My time is my time - unless the company is going to properly comensate me for
my time, anything I do on my time is mine. No one "owns" me!
I -
personally - would never agree to sign such a term without appropriate
compensation being spelled out.
And therein lies part of the power the
professional has - if everyone refused to sign such a term, no company would
have the engineers to stay in business. The company would be forced to drop the
term in order to acquire employees. Such a term only exists because sufficient
employees are willing to accept it to make it viable to the company.
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