Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!minow From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Intellectual property agreements with an employer Message-ID: <383@decvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 21:33:11 EST Article-I.D.: decvax.383 Posted: Mon Feb 20 21:33:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:46:14 EST References: <349@bnl.UUCP> Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group Lines: 27 The Swedish Engineer's trade union negotiated a general-purpose intellectual property agreement with the employeer's federation which, as I remember it, divided "inventions" into three classes: 1. things which directly pertain to your job function: the employeer owns these outright. 2. things which are part of the employeer's business, but which are distinct from your job function. (For example, you work on transistors and invent a disk drive head positioner.) You must report these to your employeer, who is obligated to pay you the going rate for the invention if bought outside. Your employeer does get first refusal. 3. things separate from the employeer's business. (As above, but you invent a new fishing reel.) You own it outright. One thing in the quoted agreement that seemed new was a phrase "anything developed using your employeer's resources." This would suggest that if you hack a computer game on the weekend, it would be the employeer's property. (And they could sue you for misuse of computer time.) Or, am I being paranoid? Happy hacking. Martin Minow decvax!minow