Deborah Harrell wrote:
So if gov't researchers _on their own time_ come up
with something novel, they should be 'owners' of that?
Depends.
If my husband comes up with *any* sort of software while he's with his
current employer, his current employer owns it. It's in his employment
contract.
He wouldn't sign until he was satisfied that there was some sort of
stipulation that non-software intellectual property that he came up with
on his own time (e.g., written fiction) was HIS and not theirs.
I don't know what the terms of employment are for the government
researchers, but it could be that if they came up with something on
their "own" time related at least a bit to their job, that it might
"belong" to the employer.
Julia
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