> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Julia Thompson > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 5:00 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Drug patents > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > So if gov't researchers _on their own time_ come up > > with something novel, they should be 'owners' of that? > > Depends. > > If my husband comes up with *any* sort of software while he's with his > current employer, his current employer owns it. It's in his employment > contract. > > He wouldn't sign until he was satisfied that there was some sort of > stipulation that non-software intellectual property that he came up with > on his own time (e.g., written fiction) was HIS and not theirs. That's a bit stronger than what I had to sign when I was an employee. I certainly wouldn't sign such an agreement now, unless it was part of an offer that was too good to be true....since it would preclude me having any other customers.
As for writing fiction, the closest I've come to in the last 20 years has been my monthly report, so I guess they had a right to the fiction I wrote. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
