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Have you? This is only relevant if your invention is in direct competition to the business at hand.
by maze-le 7y ago
Have you? This is only relevant if your invention is in direct competition to the business at hand.
- lnsru 7y agoI am building electrical measurement equipment daily and tried to sell couple peripherals for Raspberry Pi as side project. The stupid thing is, that you don’t decide what’s in direct competition. That decides a lawyer and I got rejection since both were electrical systems :-))
- maze-le 7y agoSorry to hear that. That's seriously fucked up, and I am almost sure that it wouldn't stand in court >> that you don’t decide what’s in direct competition. That decides a lawyer No. If in doubt a court decides it, not an encroaching law department -- but nobody wants that to happen so everyone silences themselves beforehand... Just one more reason for me never to be employed by a company with more than 150 employees
- Xylakant 7y agoIt's not: See https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/__18.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/arbnerfg/__18.html You must report everything that is not clearly and obviously unrelated to an employers business. That's different from "direct competition". The circumstances under which an employer can make claims to it are more nuanced: If it's related to a field that the employer has business in or is preparing to have business in, they get a right of first buy for at least a non-exclusive license. And that's the problem with google: They do basically everything IT-related. Whatever you might invent - it will likely be related to field google is in or is preparing to be in.