Re:Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes
by ChuckMcM on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:09PM
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I've seen similar clauses. I understood what the company was going for (they didn't want you to quit, patent the idea you had been working on, and then hold the company for ransom [I know, unlikely]) and suggested alternate wording but in the end we just struck the clause completely.
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That was the spirit of the document as I understood it. Fortunately the deal fell apart before I got to this part, but I certainly would have crossed out the clause, or at least wrote in "inventions related to the business of the employer" to satisfy their paranoia.