Timeline for Signed a contract with employer stating they own all my IP; they sent an email saying its only for competing products. Should I be worried?
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| May 23, 2017 at 13:55 | comment | added | user6726 | Right, so the point is that it doesn't meet the requirement for automatic assignment, under Swedish law. I don't know if Denmark. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 8:19 | comment | added | Green_qaue | @user6726 This was not created "following instructions by the employer". I started it years before I started working for that company. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 1:09 | comment | added | user6726 | Sweden background, wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/se/se124en.pdf, Art 40a " The copyright in a computer program created by an employee as a part of his tasks or following instructions by the employer is transferred to the employer unless otherwise agreed in contract". | |
| May 22, 2017 at 21:04 | comment | added | Dale M♦ | In most jurisdictions, if the person is ostensibly authorised (I.e. it's reasonable to assume that they are) then it doesn't matter if they are actually authorised. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 18:19 | history | answered | feetwet♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |