A note on #1: not all states have laws that specifically protect IP you generate outside of work hours. I have a friend who ran into this exact problem in New

A note on #1: not all states have laws that specifically protect IP you generate outside of work hours. I have a friend who ran into this exact problem in New York. Here's a list of states that do have laws that specifically protect IP created outside work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/401269/states-having-nonassignable-invention-exceptions-similar-to-california-code-secti http://stackoverflow.com/questions/401269/states-having-nona...