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English: As of September 15, 2023, eleven U.S. states ban employment contracts requiring employees to assign intellectual property rights for inventions that the employees develop on their own time and using their own resources. These laws generally stipulate that the employee retains the intellectual property rights to an invention or creative work they create during their employment as long as the creation is:
  • Created on the employee's own time and without using any resources (including equipment, trade secrets, etc.) belonging to the employer
  • Not related to the employer's business, or to the employer's actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development; and
  • Not derived from any work done by the employee for the employer

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Employee retains IP created outside of work
 
No such restriction on employee invention assignment agreements

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Source Own work based on: Blank US Map (states only).svg
Author Qzekrom

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Map of U.S. states with restrictions on employee invention assignment agreements

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9 August 2024

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