| How would someone... 19:42 - Apr 5 with 5713 views | Dyfnant |
go about ‘protecting’ an idea that could make the company they work for a significant sum of money? Want to make sure I get a reasonable cut if it works. | |
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| How would someone... on 19:45 - Apr 5 with 5705 views | Fireboy2 |
I will tell you if you tell me your idea  | | | |
| How would someone... on 19:45 - Apr 5 with 5700 views | Lohengrin |
I stand to be corrected but if you work for a company and this innovation you’ve thought up is within that field of endeavour as you’re under contract in the eyes of the law it’s the company’s intellectual property. | |
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| How would someone... on 19:49 - Apr 5 with 5680 views | ItchySphincter |
Agreed. You would have most likely signed away any intellectual property by accepting the terms of employment. Some companies have a good idea bonus but what's yours is theirs. | |
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| How would someone... on 19:50 - Apr 5 with 5676 views | londonlisa2001 |
If you had the idea in work, or invented something in work, and you’re an employee, it belongs to your employer, not you.
Hopefully if you ever have an idea you have it when you’re not in work. Unless you’re something like an engineer or coder etc etc, in which case your contract will often still say it’s theirs not yours. | | | |
| How would someone... on 19:51 - Apr 5 with 5668 views | raynor94 |
Ahh, the good old suggestions scheme with British Steel. | |
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| How would someone... on 19:59 - Apr 5 with 5653 views | WxmJax |
A company I worked for had a scheme where the best idea got a video player at the end of the year. This guy had an idea that was reckoned to save around £100k. He got £100 for his idea and a video recorder.
Another multi-European firm I worked for asked for suggestions on how to improve quality and savings. You 'could' get an award of it was the best idea but nothing concrete. There was a big push for it from the people who's job it was to improve quality and savings 
I didn't partake. | |
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| How would someone... on 20:23 - Apr 5 with 5612 views | WarwickHunt |
Could it work for a competitor?  | | | |
| How would someone... on 20:31 - Apr 5 with 5597 views | Fireboy2 |
Nice one  | | | |
| How would someone... on 21:00 - Apr 5 with 5537 views | theloneranger |
You could do what Terry Matthews did. He completed his GPO apprenticeship at their research lab at Martlesham Heath, and then took his ideas with him to Canada to work in a chipmaking business.
Here he met his mate and future business partner Mike Cowpland, who also had great ideas, and they started up MITEL (Mike and Terry). The rest is history and Matthews became Wales first billionaire!! | |
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| How would someone... on 21:09 - Apr 5 with 5527 views | Dyfnant |
I thought of it last night, only work Monday to Wednesday on minimum wage these days (had enough of shifts) does that count as in work? My idea could be used worldwide by a number of companies, could be very useful in this troubled climate. | |
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| How would someone... on 00:28 - Apr 6 with 5461 views | DJack |
Honestly, go to a competitor (with a lawyer). Good luck mate. | |
| It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan |
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| How would someone... on 00:43 - Apr 6 with 5452 views | londonlisa2001 |
If you go to a competitor to offer them something that would harm your current employer you’d be sacked best case. Any competitor who took you up on it wouldn’t be worth a damn anyway as it’s completely unethical and any decent company would avoid it as they’d be taken to the cleaners. | | | |
| How would someone... on 00:45 - Apr 6 with 5449 views | londonlisa2001 |
Depends what type of work and what your contract says. Most people are shocked to find out the company they work for owns their ideas. | | | |
| How would someone... on 02:24 - Apr 6 with 5429 views | DJack |
Aye, but the fact that your emploter can own your ideas and yet you only get a wage and not a share of the profits is criminally one sided.
If your idea has indirectly come from/during your employment then why the fck does your employer own it? As far as ethical goes look at JRM's company and many others, it's fine then to be unethical, it's just "finding opportunities". | |
| It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan |
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| How would someone... on 08:03 - Apr 6 with 5371 views | dickythorpe |
Is it a breathing aid Dyfnant?
If so resign and go to a competitor. [Post edited 6 Apr 2020 8:04]
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| How would someone... on 09:37 - Apr 6 with 5330 views | WarwickHunt |
Is it specific to your industry? Can you protect the IP? | | | |
| How would someone... on 09:50 - Apr 6 with 5309 views | ladyjack |
Are you close to retirement ? | | | |
| How would someone... on 22:02 - Apr 6 with 5205 views | Dyfnant |
Gonna be 10 - 15 years probably | |
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| How would someone... on 22:03 - Apr 6 with 5200 views | Dyfnant |
Pretty much so. Don’t know how I’d go about the IP bit | |
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| How would someone... on 22:04 - Apr 6 with 5197 views | Dyfnant |
No. | |
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| How would someone... on 22:28 - Apr 6 with 5159 views | WarwickHunt |
PM’d you. | | | |
| How would someone... on 22:56 - Apr 6 with 5127 views | londonlisa2001 |
Sorry, only just seen this.
I agree - it’s crazy that you don’t own an idea you have.
But your employer owns your entire output during work, so it’s no different. | | | |
| How would someone... on 07:15 - Apr 7 with 5066 views | Professor |
Universities being the odd exception where the originator keeps much of the IP | | | |
| How would someone... on 07:19 - Apr 7 with 5063 views | dickythorpe |
In that case " I'm out" | | | |
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