One of the many benefits of being in California is that work that you do in your own free time with your own resources legally belongs to you. I’m not sure what

One of the many benefits of being in California is that work that you do in your own free time with your own resources legally belongs to you. I’m not sure what would happen in the state this engineer is in on the other hand. Of course, they can’t force him to complete and deliver work he did in his own free time but I’m not sure whether he would be able to reuse it or file a patent himself.