Legal rights over creations of the mind — inventions, designs, brand names, artistic works, software code. IP includes copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. In employment contexts, work created during employment using company resources typically belongs to the company.
You're a developer. Your employment contract says 'all code written by you belongs to the company.' But you also build a personal app on weekends using your own laptop, unrelated to your job. Without a carve-out clause, the company might claim that app too.
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