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Protecting AI related IP by assigning all current and future IP to an LLC
Consider a fairly typical IP assignment clause, such as
I understand that the provisions of this Agreement requiring assignment of Inventions to the Company do not apply to any Invention that I have ...
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Which type of attorney should I consult for a complex case involving employment, contract, and IP law?
This question concerns another Stack Exchange question: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/195267/agreement-made-at-hire-is-unenforceable-due-to-a-technicality-employer-refuses
What type of ...
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USA Employment Law: Job Search with Moonlighting
I am a Software Developer contractor but I also want to have my own side-hustle business. This side hustle business might contain programming, research or developing new software products. However, it ...
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difference between work and contractual obligations
In an employment contract, what is the difference between "the course of work" and "performance of contractual obligations"?
For example, in the Swiss Code of Obligations:
Art. ...
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Can a contract clause really stop me from developing something in my own time [duplicate]
My contract states the below:
I assume this means, even things i make in my personal time would belong to the company?
I wonder how enforceable that really is as that would suggest that they would be ...
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Can a Mexican employer really claim rights to IP created before the start of employment if not declared?
THE EMPLOYEE expressly acknowledges that pursuant to Article 163 of the Mexican Labor Law, all rights to any inventions, improvements and any intellectual property rights
(“Intellectual/...
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Confused about Intellectual Property Rights
I have applied for a job as a software developer in the UK and have been sent back a contract which has the following wordage:
You agree that all rights to all material created in the course of
your ...
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Do these terms contradict each other for who owns work created by contractor?
These two sentences are literally side by side and seem to be saying opposite things.
All deliverables and associated documents...developed by Contractor
during the term of this Agreement shall ...
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Is this Intellectual Property clause over-reaching?
Here's an extract from my (employee) contract
All rights to any material and results, and all intellectual property rights related thereto, made, written, designed or produced by Nathan Cooper ...
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Can an employer steal intellectual property?
Say someone wrote some software PRIOR to employment at the company where they currently work.
They presented it to a CEO and three other high level employees of the company. They expressed, what the ...
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Disclosing prior inventions to company before starting work
I know some companies want on boarding employees to disclose to them any invention or innovation they have made. If you do not do this, can the company claim the invention or innovation as their own? ...
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Can employer claim ownership of intellectual property made while not at work?
I've heard in job contracts there can be clauses saying that all intellectual property created by the employee during their employment, belongs to the company, regardless if it's done during hours ...
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Who owns the intellectual property that I complete outside of work?
I'm currently employed for a company as a software engineer. In my own time separate from my employment I write software. The software I write on my own has nothing remotely to do with my employment. ...
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