My hopefully-soon-to-be employer has asked me to sign an Inventions Assignment Agreement. Generally, the contract seems fine, as they wish to ensure their IP is protected and that I'm not screwing around on them. However, it makes no exception for work done on my own time/equipment that is unrelated to their business (my state has no l...
Standard employment agreements stipulate that the employing company owns all inventions and discoveries produced during the period of employment. California code section 2870 exempts inventions produced outside of work and without use of company facilities by California employees: 2870. (a) Any provision in an employment agreement whi...
Duplicate of: What considerations should be made before reinventing the wheel? I find myself enjoying very much designing infrastructure components like: Source code control, Plugins mechanism, Document management, Application shell and even scripting language (see: www.SceneMax.com). On the other side people in my team say they do...
In another question, I asked something similar but I ended up just posting my algorithm there and invalidating several answers. I re-ask it here: If I "invented" an algorithm, what's the best way for me to figure out if it's already been published about/patented? ...
I'm about to start a job and they want a list of "Prior Inventions And Original Works Of Authorship". What exactly should I include? Should I include anything I can point at that I've worked on? Should I include stuff I've worked on for past employers? What about stuff that is owned by an LLC I'm a partner in? Can I put down "anything in...