From nico@monnet.to Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:31:45 +0100 (CET)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:31:45 +0100 (CET)
From: Nicolas MONNET nico@monnet.to
Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents]
 Re: [Patents] Re: Patents digest, Vol 1 #162 - 2 msgs

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, JS Kelly wrote:

|> If brain products can be chained, then brains should be too,
|> i.e. people. 
|>   Of course I am not in favor of the latter.
|>   But a country has to have logic.
|
|But they are! Brains, I mean. A main reason I left my last job -- after
|only a few weeks -- was that the contract wording stated that any idea I
|had -- whether it related to my work or not, whether it came about on
|company time or vacation time, in short, any idea at all -- belonged to
|that company. I'm told this is common.

As someone commented on Slashdot: there's an easy way out of this, you
just have to do it BEFORE signing the contract. Just ammend the contract
as you feel like, for example using a red pen, sign every correction and
deletions, date, and send back. This seems to be a perfectly valid way of
making a contract.

Usually, most employers will sign back, et voila, you have a contract that
you like.







