I can think of a few: - Have the employee agree to grant a royalty-free license to all relevant inventions made in the appropriate time period - Have the empl

I can think of a few: - Have the employee agree to grant a royalty-free license to all relevant inventions made in the appropriate time period - Have the employee forfeit all inventions in the event they initiate litigation - Or better, sign a mutual patent disarmament clause (probably my favorite option) Going back to the core of the issue though, I would not trust investors who insist on appropriating the rights to any and all inventions they can. The article tries to frame this as a legal protection strategy, but they don't need ownership to do this. The only reason they insist on it is to try and pressure the founders into squeezing maximum value from employees while giving back as little as they can in return. Unfortunately this behavior is quite widespread.