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No one owns ideas, you might have signed a non-compete... but those aren't usually enforcable depending on what your position is. If you take the code, that's
by swalsh 8y ago
No one owns ideas, you might have signed a non-compete... but those aren't usually enforcable depending on what your position is.
If you take the code, that's unethical. They paid you to write the code, so they own that. But you're free to do whatever you want.
- henryfjordan 8y agoIntellectual Property is literally ideas you can own. Patents, Copyrights, etc.
- radley 8y agoNo, IP is in how you specifically execute those ideas. Patents cover processes and copyright is for expression.
- pnw_hazor 8y agoNDA/Noncompetes are usually enforceable in states that allow them. This is most states.