RE: "Prior Inventions" on employment contract

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Another possibility is that the company does NOT want you bringing in your
stuff?  Perhaps they have their own way of doing things and are using this
method to make you leave your habits at home?

Their paragraph is so onerous that there just has to be two sides to the
story.  If its a place you wish to work then perhaps you need to sit back
and listen to why they are doing this?



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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Monday, December 09, 2002 02:43:38 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: "Prior Inventions" on employment contract

> From: Dan

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> But, isn't Exhibit "B" the place where I would retain my ownership

> rights? And, if so, would I presume correctly that detail, detail,

> detail trumps over a broad "everything on my cd" statement?


You've by now received a bunch of good advice from others on the list. My
point here is that this language puts the onus on you to remember every idea
you've ever had that is relevant, AND TO HAVE NO NEW IDEAS.

Because once you've signed this contract, anything new that you think of is
potentially their property. All they have to do is identify it as "Relating
to" the "COMPANY'S business".

That's a hell of a broad brush, and one they can extend at any time. I
would never, not in a million years, sign this contract.

Joe
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