INVENTION ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT
Effective date: [DATE]. Complete the bracketed fields and remove unused options before signing.
Company: [FULL LEGAL NAME], [ADDRESS], [NOTICE EMAIL].
Inventor: [FULL LEGAL NAME], [ADDRESS], [NOTICE EMAIL].
1. RELATIONSHIP AND COVERED INVENTIONS
Relationship or project: [DESCRIPTION]. Covered inventions are [PRECISE WORK-RELATED SCOPE] created during [PERIOD]. The agreement excludes inventions protected from assignment by mandatory law. An invention is not covered merely because it was created during the relationship.
2. EXCLUDED WORK
Pre-existing inventions, outside projects and third-party obligations: [LIST OR NONE]. The inventor must identify any such material before incorporating it into company work. A license for incorporated background material exists only on these terms: [SCOPE OR NONE].
3. DISCLOSURE AND ASSIGNMENT
The inventor will promptly disclose covered inventions through [PROCESS] and hereby assigns transferable rights in covered inventions to the company to the extent permitted by law. Consideration and any required inventor compensation: [DETAILS]. Rights excluded by law remain with the inventor.
4. FURTHER ASSISTANCE
The inventor will reasonably assist with applications and documentation at the company's expense, including agreed compensation for assistance after the relationship ends. This clause grants no automatic power of attorney. Publication or patent filing decisions: [PROCESS].
5. CONFIDENTIALITY AND RECORDS
Each party must use the other's non-public business information only for this engagement, protect it with reasonable care, and disclose it only to people who need it and are bound to protect it. This excludes information already lawfully known, independently developed, lawfully received elsewhere, or public without breach. Required or protected disclosures are not prohibited. On request, return or delete information, except records required by law, which remain protected. Required statutory invention notices or attachments: [TEXT / IDENTIFIED ATTACHMENT / NOT APPLICABLE].
6. NOTICES AND CHANGES
Notices must be sent to the addresses above by [AGREED DELIVERY METHOD] and take effect on [AGREED RECEIPT RULE]. Each party must promptly notify the other of changed contact details. Changes to this agreement must be recorded in writing and accepted by all affected parties.
7. LAW AND DISPUTES
Governing law: [AGREED LAW]. Courts or other agreed dispute process: [FORUM AND PROCESS]. The parties will first try to resolve a dispute through their named contacts for [NUMBER] days, without preventing urgent relief or missing a legal deadline. Nothing in this agreement removes rights or requirements that cannot lawfully be excluded.
8. COMPLETE AGREEMENT
This document and its completed schedules record the agreement on this subject. If a term cannot be enforced, the remaining terms continue to the extent permitted. Each signatory confirms authority to sign for the named party. Counterparts and electronic signatures may be used where permitted; any additional signing formalities must still be completed.
SIGNATURES
Company: [NAME]
Signature: ____________________ Date: ____________________
Signing capacity, if applicable: [TITLE / CAPACITY]
Inventor: [NAME]
Signature: ____________________ Date: ____________________
Signing capacity, if applicable: [TITLE / CAPACITY]