What would happen if your top engineers walked out the door with a patentable idea?

As the CEO of a technologies company, have you thought about what would happen if your top engineers walked out the door with a patentable idea and started a very profitable business? Every employment agreement these days should have a clause obligating employees to assign their rights and invention to your company. However, this doesn't always happen. Every engineer will leave their current position at some point, and some of them will leave with extremely valuable ideas in their heads that they have been moonlighting on. In today's PatentCast, discover how an engineer walked out with valuable patentable ideas when his company was focused on GPS technologies for surveying applications. This former employer lost out on the "Big Win" when they could have had a very profitable idea without expensive or risky litigation.

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What would happen if your top engineers walked out the door with a patentable idea? is an episode from Litigation Quality Patent PatentCast by Thompson Patent Law Offices PC.

This episode is 23:23 long.

This episode was published on Sep 10, 2018.

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