Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!princeton!eosp1!mcmillan From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (John McMillan) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs Subject: Re: Intellectual property agreements with an employer Message-ID: <579@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Feb-84 11:07:50 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.579 Posted: Mon Feb 13 11:07:50 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 05:08:24 EST References: <550@u1100a.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 19 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 allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)