depending on if you've signed away your IP rights or not

usually the employment contract you sign have provisions in there that says all your inventions belong to your company, including those that you come up with at home during your spare time. this type of contract is very typical nowadays. More than likely you've signed something like that. If that is the case, then your company would be the Assignee of the patent. You are still the inventor. But all the rights belong to the assignee.

If your company does not know about this invention yet, then you can keep it a secret until you left the company, then file for patent individually. But there are several problems with this approach as well.

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• 回複：depending on if you've signed away your IP rights or not -nugget- ♀ (48 bytes) () 04/18/2008 postreply 16:25:33

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