Different rights behave differently. Work-for-hire doctrine pertains to copyright only. An employee who produces "work-for-hire" never owns the copyrights to hi

Different rights behave differently. Work-for-hire doctrine pertains to copyright only. An employee who produces "work-for-hire" never owns the copyrights to his creative work. Whereas with patentable inventions, all inventors must be named on any application for an invention, and any inventor who has not assigned her rights in writing will generally retain them, even if she was an employee of the applicant.