This agreement records the understanding between an employee and the company about inventions created during employment: what belongs to the company, what stays with the employee, and how new inventions are disclosed and protected.

1. Parties

This agreement is between Company name (the "Company") and Employee full name (the "Employee"), employed as Job title. It takes effect on Effective date.

2. What counts as an invention

"Inventions" means inventions, discoveries, improvements, designs, software, algorithms, processes, formulas, and works of authorship — whether or not patentable or registrable — that the Employee conceives, creates, or reduces to practice, alone or with others.

3. Assignment of company inventions

1. The Employee assigns to the Company all right, title, and interest in inventions that the Employee makes during employment and that: relate to the Company's business or its anticipated research and development; result from work performed for the Company; or are made using the Company's equipment, facilities, confidential information, or time ("company inventions").
2. The assignment takes effect when each company invention is created. Where an advance assignment is not possible, the Employee agrees to assign on creation and to confirm the assignment in writing on request.
3. To the maximum extent the law allows, the Employee waives moral rights in company inventions and consents to the Company's use of them without attribution.

4. Statutory carve-out

1. This agreement does not apply to inventions that applicable law excludes from employer assignment. In general terms, such laws often protect inventions developed entirely on the Employee's own time, without using the Company's equipment, supplies, facilities, or confidential information, and that neither relate to the Company's business or anticipated research nor result from work performed for the Company.
2. The exact scope of any exclusion is set by the law of the applicable jurisdiction, summarized or attached here by the Company: Statutory carve-out reference.

5. Prior inventions

The Employee lists inventions made before employment that they wish to exclude: Prior inventions list. If blank or "none", the Employee confirms there are none. If the Employee incorporates a listed prior invention into Company work, the Company receives a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it in that work.

6. Duty to disclose

1. The Employee will promptly disclose to the Company, in writing, every invention made during employment that could reasonably be a company invention — including inventions the Employee believes fall within a statutory carve-out, so the classification can be reviewed fairly.
2. Disclosures of inventions the Employee believes are excluded will be treated as the Employee's confidential information while classification is confirmed.
3. For Post-employment disclosure period after employment ends, the Employee will disclose inventions that are based on the Company's confidential information or that were conceived during employment.

7. Cooperation and records

1. The Employee will keep reasonable records of company inventions and make them available to the Company.
2. During and after employment, the Employee will — at the Company's expense — sign documents and provide reasonable assistance to obtain, maintain, and enforce protection for company inventions.
3. If the Company cannot obtain the Employee's signature after reasonable effort, the Employee appoints the Company as attorney-in-fact solely to sign such documents on the Employee's behalf.

8. No conflicting obligations

The Employee confirms they have no agreement or obligation that conflicts with this agreement, and will not use or bring to the Company any third party's confidential information or unlicensed materials.

9. General

1. This agreement supplements the employment agreement; on invention ownership, this agreement controls.
2. It binds the Employee's heirs and benefits the Company's successors and assigns.
3. Amendments must be written and signed by both parties; an unenforceable provision is enforced to the maximum permitted extent and the rest stands.

Signatures

Employee: ✍ Employee signature Date: Employee signature date

For the Company: ✍ Company signature Date: Company signature date