Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.9 3/12/85; site unisoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!zehntel!vlsvax1!qantel!dual!unisoft!pc From: pc@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Company vs Employee Software rights Message-ID: <461@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-May-85 12:03:22 EDT Article-I.D.: unisoft.461 Posted: Fri May 17 12:03:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 19-May-85 00:32:58 EDT References: <122@watmum.UUCP> Organization: UniSoft Systems, Berkeley Lines: 26 Just for information the California Labour Code Section 2870 reads as follows Article 3.5 Inventions Made by an Employee 2780. Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign or offer to assign any of his other rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention for which no equipment, supplies, facility, or trade secret information of the employer was used and which was developed entirely on the employee's own time, and (a) which does not relate (1) to the business of the employer or (2) the the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development, or (b) which does not result from any work performed by the employee for the employer. Any provision which purports to apply to such an invention is to that extent against the public policy of this state and to that extent unenforcable. (Copied from my own employment agreement) Hopefully other states have similar statutes Paul Campbell ..!ucbvax!unisoft!paul