Re:Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents
by hexo on Sunday March 24, 2019 @04:34PM
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this company behavior should be extremely illegal. noone can tell you you cant program FOSS in your own time(!!! such as they cant prohibit you from drinking beer on friday night with friends). and claiming stuff such as "Well, this part of the product I wrote in my evenings, so now that you're selling the company, I'm claiming ownership of it." should be equally easy to dismiss by judge as 'crap argument'.
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Re:Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents
by c2h5oh on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:43PM
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I quit my job over that at one of the largest Canadian tech companies soon after the golden hancufs of acquihire expired. As far I'm aware they lost everyone but two engineers of the acquired company within 18 months.
I've had that clause in initial version of the contract at every Canadian tech company I've worked at except my current employer - I had to negotiate having it removed, and succeeded except the one time I've mentioned