Once someone told me a story about two company that were building cars.
One was building slick cars the other not so slick cars but with robust tires that could roll on spikes, additionally they were silently buying roads.
So, there were quite even on the market, but one day suddenly spikes just popped up from roads.
At, the time when I heard this story the "spike" company was referring to Microsoft.
So much about "do not be evil" policy although that is Google slogan one must ask is the Angular or Node.js next?
21st century and still greed for money and monopoly "one to rule them all" screwing open trusting hard working guy ...
I know this is side ways but: how should we trust any other thing they release or talk about privacy, sharing, VR, Basic Income ... ?!
and as they say they are not willing to change contract, I have to think twice... as I do not want to retire my skills or cut out my possibility to have a startup one day.
Issue here is they saying: "we are to big company, it is our standard contract, we will not change contract just for you ... at least that is what their HR is saying"
For me issue is "or by using materials, tools or knowledge made available through your employment"
when you combine it with "whether during or after the termination of your employment" and
"shall remain in full force and effect following any termination"
So basically, let say I do not know Scala and I learn it there or I use GoDaddy to register domain, according to contract I will never be able to use those anywhere else, and if I do I will need to handover things I have done?!
"Intellectual Property Rights" - Copyright and related rights, registered designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names and domain names, rights in get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) rights in and to any inventions, patents, design patents, utility patents and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights o r forms of protection which may now or in the future subsist in any part of the world.
"Inventions" - Inventions, ideas and improvements, whether or not patentable, and whether or not recorded in any medium.
This is the part I do not like:
i) Due to the nature of your duties and your particular responsibilities, you recognise that you have an obligation to further the interests of company “B”.
ii) If you make an Invention in the course of your duties for us, you must disclose it to us at once. That Invention will belong to us. If we obtain a patent for that Invention, however, you may be entitled to compensation for it in accordance with the Patents Act 1977 s.40.
iii) Subject to ii), all Intellectual Property Rights that come into existence during the normal course of your employment or by using materials, tools or knowledge made available through your employment, will belong to us or any of the Group Companies which we nominate. If required to do so (whether during or after the termination of your employment), you must sign any document and do anything necessary to vest ownership in these rights in us as sole beneficial owner. Where ownership does not automatic ally vest by Act of Parliament, you must immediately assign all your interests to us. You irrevocably waive all your rights pursuant to sections 77 to 83 inclusive of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
iv) The provisions of this clause 3 (c) shall remain in full force and effect following any termination of this agreement for any reason, whether such termination is lawful or not.
I have some issues with "Intellectual Property Right" in my job contract, as I have my llc company, but I am seeking permanent job, in the contract says that, what ever I learn there tools, knowledge etc, I cannot use anywhere else.
And if I register domain or what ever I have to handover everything... so now not sure what to do...
So much about "do not be evil" policy although that is Google slogan one must ask is the Angular or Node.js next?
21st century and still greed for money and monopoly "one to rule them all" screwing open trusting hard working guy ... I know this is side ways but: how should we trust any other thing they release or talk about privacy, sharing, VR, Basic Income ... ?!