Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job

Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job by bspn on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:03PM (#14333244)

Something I've seen a few times is a disclosure mechanism that allows you to declare any side projects that you're working on in your own time and carve those out from the IP assignment rights usually found within NDAs.

Now, you can argue that it's not your employer's business what you do off the clock, but it at least provides a way to protect yourself from falling foul of the agreement and having the company later claim ownership of your work. The key though is to ensure that you don't do any personal work on a company laptop - I believe once you do that all bets are off.

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Re:Noncompete Clauses: Signing Away the Right to Get a New Job by bicubic on Saturday May 13, 2017 @08:54PM (#14333716)

Do you have any evidence of that disclosure mechanism actually working in the employee's interest? I always read these clauses as 'notify us when you start new side projects so we can decide if we like them and take them off you for some reason or other'.

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