Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!homxa!govern From: govern@homxa.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-437 x0705) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs Subject: Re: Intellectual property agreements with an employer Message-ID: <117@homxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 09:48:49 EST Article-I.D.: homxa.117 Posted: Wed Feb 15 09:48:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 04:43:08 EST References: <550@u1100a.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 17 For the most part, the CSO Intellectual Property Agreement is reasonable - any work you do with CSO's resources belongs to them. Back when Bell Laboratories was Bell Laboratories, we had to sign about the same thing. (And they didn't even pay us $1.00 :-) ) My main concern, which several other people have brought up when this topic last came up, is "What happens if you develop something they want, using your own resources?". The prototype example, which is more a problem at ATTIS than at CSO, is personal computer software that you write on your own time. The last phrase in paragraph 1 of your agreement ends "... or relating to any subject matter with which CSO is or may be concerned.", and this might get you in trouble. Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Laboratories -- The .signature file of Bill Stewart and/or the "govern" group account