Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Intellectual property agreements with an employer Message-ID: <996@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 10:11:03 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.996 Posted: Tue Feb 21 10:11:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 07:21:00 EST References: <349@bnl.UUCP> <383@decvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 13 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. How is "the going rate" determined? Seems like the employer can make up any number they want, they have you over a barrel. Does this only apply to situatios where the companies resources are used? That is, if you do the work at home using your own equipment, does the company have any claim to it?