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From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (John McMillan)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs
Subject: Re: Intellectual property agreements with an employer
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Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 11:07:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 13 11:07:50 1984
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Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ
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The form quoted, which protects the employer's rights to inventions,
discoveries, and trade secrets, looks pretty ordinary to me.
The point is that while working for your employer and using his facilities,
you are making discoveries for your employer, not for yourself.

Some of the terms of this agreement remain in force after you leave this
employment, and again they seem ordianry and reasonable:

	- respect your former employer's trade secrets (very successfully
	  enforced in the courts)

	- continue to assist your former employer to obtain patents
	  pending, at the employer's expense.
					- Toby Robison
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					(NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)