Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!pc From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs Subject: Re: Intellectual property arrangements with an employer Message-ID: <2084@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 12:00:52 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsb.2084 Posted: Wed Feb 15 12:00:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:28:24 EST References: <965@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 19 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