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by derekp7 3901 days ago
"Any inventions, innovations, or ideas, conceived solely by the employee or jointly with others, relating to any current or future business of the company, at any time during the term of employment, are considered property of the company."

That was part of the employment agreement I had to sign when I worked at a large electronics/telecom company a number of years ago. So anything that could have been put on a public facing site (including technical articles) was not allowed. Of course, you could get a waver for individual projects but that had to be granted by I believe a VP level employee. Oh, and if you were to seek out that permission, unless you were already a superstar performer, you'd hear thing like "How do you have time for these side projects when you are behind on xyz project".

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> "How do you have time for these side projects when you are behind on xyz project".

Nights and weekends ?