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Please see the link I added. You should check your employment contract to see the exact terms of the copyright assignment clause you signed, but it's definitely

Please see the link I added. You should check your employment contract to see the exact terms of the copyright assignment clause you signed, but it's definitely very common to have to assign any inventions you make that are "related to your employers area of work", regardless of what hardware you use or if you do it in the office or at home.

sdoering 7y ago
Well who signs contracts like these? I mean really? And why? I really cannot understand anybody giving away that much of their live for an employer/the next paycheck. Yeah - if I am really, really in a tight spot financially - for as long as it takes to crawl out of such a mess - ok. But regularly? Long term? Help me to understand. And I also do not understand how a company could find this morally acceptable to have this idea. I mean is this really the norm in the US?
- drchickensalad 7y ago
  99% of people sign them. Almost everyone will barely read it. The rest assume that it won't affect them.
- NegativeLatency 7y ago
  Unfortunately it is the norm. (With tech companies)
- oarsinsync 7y ago
  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. I'd rather get paid more today than take a lower salary with the potential to possibly, if I'm really lucky, strike gold with my own invention.
- Xylakant 7y ago
  > Well who signs contracts like these? I mean really? And why? I really cannot understand anybody giving away that much of their live for an employer/the next paycheck. The outrage is a bit funny, because that's actually the law in Germany. It doesn't even need to be in the contract. (1) And if you think about it, it makes sense: Otherwise every employee who finds something patentable during working hours just clocks out, goes home and invents it "on his own time." And that would be a problem for an employer, too. So the deal is "employer pays you, and gets first dibs on whatever you invent in the general area that the employer pays you to work in." (1) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/index.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/index.html
  - sdoering 7y ago
    As already answered on another comment. This law does not enable an employer to claim every employees (patentable) invention. Please read the text - especially on the so called free inventions.
    - Xylakant 7y ago
      This is essentially in line what the article linked and the post to which you responded claims: inventions related to your assigned field of work are claimable.

sdoering 7y ago

Well who signs contracts like these? I mean really? And why? I really cannot understand anybody giving away that much of their live for an employer/the next paycheck. Yeah - if I am really, really in a tight spot financially - for as long as it takes to crawl out of such a mess - ok. But regularly? Long term? Help me to understand. And I also do not understand how a company could find this morally acceptable to have this idea. I mean is this really the norm in the US?

drchickensalad 7y ago
99% of people sign them. Almost everyone will barely read it. The rest assume that it won't affect them.
NegativeLatency 7y ago
Unfortunately it is the norm. (With tech companies)
oarsinsync 7y ago
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. I'd rather get paid more today than take a lower salary with the potential to possibly, if I'm really lucky, strike gold with my own invention.
Xylakant 7y ago
> Well who signs contracts like these? I mean really? And why? I really cannot understand anybody giving away that much of their live for an employer/the next paycheck. The outrage is a bit funny, because that's actually the law in Germany. It doesn't even need to be in the contract. (1) And if you think about it, it makes sense: Otherwise every employee who finds something patentable during working hours just clocks out, goes home and invents it "on his own time." And that would be a problem for an employer, too. So the deal is "employer pays you, and gets first dibs on whatever you invent in the general area that the employer pays you to work in." (1) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/index.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/index.html
- sdoering 7y ago
  As already answered on another comment. This law does not enable an employer to claim every employees (patentable) invention. Please read the text - especially on the so called free inventions.
  - Xylakant 7y ago
    This is essentially in line what the article linked and the post to which you responded claims: inventions related to your assigned field of work are claimable.