On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:30:06 -0800 (PST), Andross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >there are a lot of legal options here... most employees sign a >contract that diverts all their IP to their employer (remember Woz in >Pirates of Sillicon valley?), and then the employer can be the patent >holder, but not the signee (i think those are the terms)... so the >author gets verbal credit, but not rights to license... Actually, that's more a consequence of federal patent law. Corporations cannot file for patents. Inventors -- natural persons -- file for patents. They can assign the patent to their employer (and in fact are often required to by their contracts) but only a natural person can be awarded a patent. Believe me, if the law allowed it corporations would file the patents in their own name and cut the inventor out of the loop entirely. Kelly ************ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
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