Re:Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents
by ecpottinger on Sunday March 24, 2019 @03:27PM
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And don`t use company resources for personal projects.
Re:Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents
by userbinator on Sunday March 24, 2019 @06:41PM
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To me that's a given, but it seems a lot of people are not too aware of that fact --- I've seen coworkers nonchalantly working on their personal blogs or email or other such things using company property, for example. It irks me, because employees doing that can dilute the argument about owning non-work IP: "why can't we own the stuff you do at home? You're already doing personal stuff at work."
Fortunately it seems that most things like this are relatively unenforceable, but IMHO it's still a good idea to keep anonymity/"firewall" what is done on company time from everything else. Don't publish non-work-time material under an identity that could be traced back to your real identity with the company, for example.