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Do your employee IP agreements automatically assign future inventions?

By Jim Singer

A recent opinion issued by the Federal Circuit serves as a reminder that IP assignment clauses of employment agreements and employer IP policies must be carefully worded.  A vague obligation relating to future inventions may create questions about patent ownership if an inventor-employee leaves the company or otherwise becomes unavailable to sign patent assignment documents.  In DDB [...]

Full post as published by IP Spotlight on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).