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Can you cite a source for this. Reading the relevant law it says that the IP clause is valid in cases of conflict with the employer's business. If the IP clause
by marcinzm 6y ago
Can you cite a source for this. Reading the relevant law it says that the IP clause is valid in cases of conflict with the employer's business. If the IP clause is valid then, as I read it, they legally own your IP as you assigned it to them in a valid contract. They may need to sue you to exercise their right but if they win they gain your IP.
>https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/2870-2872/2870/ https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...
It says:
>(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:
> (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer; or