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Newsgroups: net.legal,net.jobs
Subject: Re: Intellectual property agreements with an employer
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:56:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 01:56:33 1984
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Scott Orshan asks:
	What does the following really imply?  Our employer has given us
	this document to sign in return for a dollar. [followed by the
	agreement]

Just be happy they gave you a dollar!!!!! I remember being asked to sign
something similar one or two companies ago (it gets confusing when you move
from Bell Laboratories to American Bell Inc. to AT&T Information Systems
without leaving your office) without being promised any monetary
compensation. Does this mean that our agreement was not legally binding?

I am disturbed by some of the wording of these agreements. I wonder what
this means about one of the (former?) employees in my building who was
arrested for (allegedly (put in to please the legal types in this group))
doing some spying for the chinese in his spare time. He did not have access
to our sensitive information, but was getting "military technology" from
elsewhere. Does ATTIS own any such information that he gathered? From the
way such documents are written, maybe they do!!!!!
-- 
-=> Avi E. Gross @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6241
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