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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
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Could signing an intellectual property agreement for an algorithm coding job prevent me from working in a similar industry later?
I am a computer coder / algorithm developer and am just getting started in industry where I know I'll have to deal with IP agreements. In particular, the question I'm asking here came about because I ...
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Is this "Works for Hire" language enforceable?
I am reviewing a job offer that includes this Works for Hire clause:
Works for Hire
During the term of your employment, you may create an
idea, process, trademark, invention, technology, program,
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Patent ownership for inventions by employees on unpaid COVID leave
According to the employment contract, anything an employee comes up with, at any time (e.g. during weekends and completely unrelated to work) is the property of the company. It seems harsh but as ...
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Assigning intellectual property rights like a provisional patent to oneself while employed
A hypothetical: let's say I am employed in the U.S., and in a field where I am compensated for the results of my ideas or intellectual work, i.e. engineering.
Let's say I have a roughly standard ...
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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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Intellectual property when leaving the employment
Company's time, company's laptop, company's idea submitted to the internal innovation platform.
It was rejected by the corporate immune system:
We are to inform you that your idea has been Backlogged....
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Are intellectual property indemnity clause, which requires the employee to indemnify the employer, enforceable?
Jurisdiction is England (UK), and it's a clause in an employment contract (permanent).
The following question has been posted on reddit, and I happen to be on the same boat.
I've been offered a ...
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Does a 16yo without a work permit have rights to the code he was paid to develop?
I am sixteen, and I have a summer job for a software company.
In my state (Maine), a work permit from school is required for someone of my age to have a job but it was never filled out. I assume ...
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License to grant intellectual property of paper created in a company [closed]
Is there a license -Open Source license, maybe- which grants the intellectual property on a paper (how-to guide, for example) I have created in a company, even if I work for it?
I would like to make ...
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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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Is work done on paid time off “work for hire” in California?
I am curious about this, because my understanding was that unless my employment contract stated to the contrary, work done in my spare time without using company resources is not “work for hire” in ...
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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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