All employees should agree to refrain from any activity that could disadvantage your business in the marketplace. In particular, during the term of the employment and for a reasonable period of time, they should agree not to ask or encourage one of your employees to leave their job in your company; Recruit or hire their employees or serve your customers or prospects. You want to protect yourself from former employees who use contacts or confidential information they acquired for your company while they work to steal your business or value. Note that a staff member`s non-recruitment agreement may not be applicable in all states (as opposed to not “asking” a staff member). The court will consider in detail the exact language used in each employment contract to decide the case. If .B. is stipulated in a contract that the worker assigns invention rights, while the other stipulates that the worker “assigns” those rights, the court may rule in favour of the company that used the current wording and not the forward-looking wording. Also note that while you are busy, everything you put in such a book can probably be claimed by the employer. And the book data and work dates are depositors they can use.
You really give up all the rights to your IP. But after the start, the new ideas, which are not represented in the book during the job, are perhaps somewhat protected from the company`s claims. All the works or ideas that I have designed, worked on, done preliminary work for this job or in which I have participated, and in which I keep at that time all good or right. So, really, the amount you can repel will depend on how much they want to hire you. The best case scenario is that if you are working on a well-defined problem, you could amend the agreement to say something like: “Both parties agree that the work to date regarding PROBLEM SPACE is the result of the use of ENTREPRISE and that all inventions are the exclusive property of COMPANY.” Obviously, this would prevent you from creating a new business with a product in this area, but they could save you a lot of time to list a number of other jobs you have done. There will be a few legal aspects, but in the United States, these types of agreements are quite often considered part of the work for leases when intellectual property is created (for example. B, software development, engineering, artistic work, etc.). I should see the full extent of this, but it seems to be a fairly standard model that says effectively: companies sometimes ask employees to assign all the invention rights to the company, that the invention has something to do with the business of the company, and regardless of whether the invention is created in the business period or at home during the employee`s free time.