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Re: [OM] OT Purpose of NDAs

Subject: Re: [OM] OT Purpose of NDAs
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 07:49:35 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
>I think I learned the real value of an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement).
>It's so you don't publicly humiliate your client for being such an
>idiot.
>

     The really fun ones are the "intellectual property" clauses, which I have 
found in numerous employment agreements.  One that I found many years ago 
stated that any intellectual property I owned would automatically become the 
property of the employer once I agreed to work for them.  I had received a few 
patents at the time and had a couple more in the works.  They didn't think I 
would notice and struck the clause when I confronted them.  The place later 
became a high-tech fraternity house.

     I almost joied a "Master Gardeners" group through the University of 
Arizona extension service, but in the membership paperwork I found a similar 
clause.  At that time I was in the midst of developing a method for duplicating 
the chemistry of natural rainwater, and I had no intention of having is 
absconded by some unscrupulous faculty member who would simply put his/her name 
on it.  Needless to say, I did not join.

     Many people in the professions ascend through the ranks by stealing the 
work of others.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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