You're talking about this as if employee contracts are usually a negotiation. In many cases, you either sign "The Contract" / "The Agreement" or you don't get h

You're talking about this as if employee contracts are usually a negotiation. In many cases, you either sign "The Contract" / "The Agreement" or you don't get hired. If a company asserts that all employees must sign such a contract, I feel that it's pretty obvious that said company is just trying to make their contract as broad as possible to "cover all of the bases." They want to (attempt to) close all possible loopholes by essentially claiming "all your base are belong to us." How many software developers could even sign a contract that assigned over all IP rights to all IP that they ever created?