[net.legal] Intellectual property arrangements with an employer

ccf@cbosgd.UUCP (Chuck F.) (02/14/84)

	If a company wants what you create by reason of your
	employment, it can only mena that they want your
	children, if any.

	(I suggest you annotate it, "I don't understand any of
	this", and sign it).

					cbosgd!ccf
					BTL Columbus

pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins) (02/15/84)

	It is my understanding that it is very difficult to inforce
these employer rights agreements.  A related legal issue is that of
leaving one employer to work for a competitor.  The inforcement of
this law varies from state to state.  Althought California has laws
which theoretically support the employer for "intellectual property rights"
and going to work for a competitor, California Courts have leaned 
toward the individual in both types of cases.


	It seems there are ethical/moral issues here which run deeper
than the contemporary whim of the Courts, but perhaps that discussion
should be in net.jobs/net.philo.

						Patricia Collins
						hplabs

borgia@cwruecmp.UUCP (The Prince) (02/17/84)

I can see that you are pleased as punch
	having pledged your brainchild (if you have any)
	to big bad mama
Anyway, what is this kind of &@#! doing in this newsgroup?