Employee Inventions

If you have employees who conduct research and who may invent products or devices in the course of that research, establish an agreement with those employees from the beginning of employment.

However, if you require or offer an employee to assign their invention rights to you, know that these rights do not apply to an invention if:

• The invention is developed entirely on the employee’s own time
• The equipment, supplies and facilities belong to the employee
• The employee did not use any of your trade secrets