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Who owns the code when my employer wants something similar to my existing open source project?
I have a similar situation to this question.
My employer hired me knowing that I work on some open source projects, but for a long time, showed no interest in my open source projects. Now they want ...
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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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Assignment of all Intellectual Property on an Employment Contract
I recently got an offer from a company and my contract includes the following. (I have not signed it yet)
It's a soft. dev job and I do a lot of hobby coding. And company is aware of that.
You ...
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Tools of the trade, software implications
My understanding of the general legal principle of "tools of the trade" is that tools which are necessary for the exercise of a profession are the inviolate property of the tradesman and cannot be ...
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Intellectual property at employee hackathon?
The company I am working for this summer is going to be hosting an hackathon for its summer interns. Out of idle curiosity, I asked about the IP rights for any resulting projects, and got the (not ...
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Can one publish an assignment completed during a hiring process?
Say a company gives a week long assignment during the hiring process of a Software Engineer role and ask for the project´s codebase to remain private.
Can they morally and legally ask to keep that ...
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