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		Spoom on April 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement A nice idea, but many developers' employment contracts already state that they assign all inventions created during the course of their duties to the company, free and clear. How would this help such a situation?

harryh on April 17, 2012 [–]

Change the employment contracts to reference the restricted IPA instead of the free and clear one.

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