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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: What happened to Howard Rogers ?
Jerry - And they may or not be able to enforce that stipulation. A friend of
mine invented something in his spare time. When his patent was granted, the
company lawyers showed up to provide his requisite $1 and their gratitude,
per the agreement he has been forced to sign as a condition of his
employment. He refused and they realized they couldn't enforce that
stipulation since the courts probably would not uphold it. But as a
consequence of the discussions with his management chain, he ended up
agreeing to resign.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:29 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I once worked for an excellent company, Southwest Research Institute, in the USA. As part of my employment agreement, I had to sign a paper saying ANY patent I was granted belonged to the company. It didn't matter if it was on my own time or not anything the company was doing. "Any" was the operative word.
Jerry Whittle
ASIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145
-----Original Message-----
It's not unique to Australia and yes, they make
you sign a piece of paper to say anything you
do between 9am and 5pm belongs to the company...
Not just Oracle, BTW. Everyone does that. I wonder
what that would do to those who claim
one consulting gig = one book...
Oh, while I'm here: did anyone suggest Howard had been sacked? I don't recall seeing that said anywhere here. There was a troll suggesting that in c.d.o.s., but that was just that: a troll.
Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au
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