You are a person. People have rights, objects do not. The company
can require that you assign them the rights to any invention created
using the things they paid for - computers, software, offices, books.
Training/experience is more of a gray area in my mind.
Note that software used to be copyrightable - not patentable. That
changed in the 80s, I believe. If you've ever looked into patenting
something, you would see that the inventor has to be a person (not a
company) - while the assignee is the 'owner' of the property.
That's my recollection and understanding.
On 12/4/2023 7:53 AM, Bob Bridges wrote:
Ok, now you've got me curious. While I'm employed by a California software
company, I ~am~ a company resource, am I not? How is the law worded to bypass
that (so to speak)?
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Sent: Monday, December 4, 2023 09:48
....As part of the employment agreement for this acquiring company we had to
sign a contract that stated anything we thought, said, did, wrote, or otherwise
created - whether at work or at home - while employed was owned by the
company....[But] State laws prevented them from snatching ownership for most of
what they were claiming. California law, to the best of my knowledge, does
give the employer ownership of an invention/product if it was developed using
company resources, and/or
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