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Work-made-for-hire designation
Patent-family / priority capture
Government / third-party directed assignment
License-back of employee IP to company
Moral-rights waiver
Own-time invention carve-out
Specific state-statute notice (Section 2870-style)
Prior-inventions schedule
Affirmative grant limited by nexus (not all-during-employment)
Confidentiality obligation defined
Third-party information reached on at least one ground
DTSA trade-secret immunity notice
Confidential-information durationRead all 3 sources and term frequencies →
Tiered confidentiality duration
Trade-secret confidentiality durationRead all 2 sources and term frequencies →
Trade-secret duration tied to secrecy status
Residuals / general-knowledge carve-out

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Maintain records of inventions
Power-of-attorney fallback
Post-employment cooperation
Post-employment assistance durationRead all 5 sources and term frequencies →
No-conflicting-obligations representation
Duty to disclose inventions
Post-employment assistance paid for time
Trailing invention disclosure after termination
Return of materials
Equitable-relief / injunction clause
No expectation of privacy / system monitoring
Personal-device deletion / verification
Notification of subsequent employer
Non-solicitation of employees/contractors
At-will employment acknowledgment
Duty of loyalty / non-compete during employment
Non-solicitation / non-interference with customers
Advice-of-counsel acknowledgment (signed)
Protected-activity / whistleblower carve-out (beyond DTSA)
Severability / reformation
Governing lawRead all 4 sources and term frequencies →
AI-tool use restriction
Export-control compliance
Copyleft / open-source incorporation restriction
Arbitration / dispute-resolution clause

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