"Sean M" <smckeown_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3CD2B48C.AD8ADB30_at_earthlink.net...
> I would also be willing to bet that Australian laws are not much
> different than the rest of the world in this respect. For instance, if
> you worked for Intel in the US and invented a new chip, guess who owns
> the patent? Right, Intel, not you. Is that fair? Absolutely. If you
> think you could have invented that chip without all the capital outlay
> that Intel provided you as an employee (computers, labs, documentation,
> fellow employees, telephones, healthcare, whatever), then you should
> have quit your job and done it on your own. Then the patent is all
> yours.
patents and copyright though both IP are different animals. In particular
copyright exists to protect the expression of ideas NOT originality or
innovation. In fact , most probably, copyright subsists in this and all my
other posts. it beongs to me and not to my employer.. if however if were to
write some software the IP in it would most probably reside with my
employer.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Sat May 04 2002 - 12:01:53 CDT
