Klarinet Archive - Posting 000215.txt from 2009/11

From: Michael Nichols <mrn.clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Musicians Protest use of canned music...by Texas Ballet
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:28:32 -0500

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Peter Gentry
<peter.gentry@-----.uk> wrote:
> Hmm sadly in my experience Engineers and Scientists are required to sign
> over all rights as part of their contract of employment not allowed to file
> patents except under the company name with additional restrictions on having
> "ideas" in your own time.

When I worked in software development (before I became a lawyer), I
had to sign one of those, too. However, the company I worked for
would have paid a bonus (or "incentive pay," I think they called it)
had I submitted an idea to them for patenting and they filed a patent
application on it.

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