> It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with, even "on their own time". That doesn't make

> It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with, even "on their own time". That doesn't make it acceptable. I've never signed a contract with such clause nor will I. When I was freelancing one of my clients tried to get me to sign a contract with a clause like this. It would have killed my business since I worked on multiple projects at once. In their case it was an oversight in using a form contract and they changed it.