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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#404040">Employees sometimes refuse to sign assignments, in which case an employment contract stating that all future inventions are hereby assigned to the employer, may be
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#404040">In rare cases inventors refuse to sign inventor declarations. Would it make sense/ eventually be helpful to have \u201cadvance Inventor Declaration\u201d clause in an employment
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