Common use of Notice to Employ Clause in Contracts

Notice to Employ. The assignment provided in Section 4 (Ownership of Creative Works) does not apply to an invention that Employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using Company’s equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either: (a) relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to Company’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of Company; or (b) result from any work performed by Employee for Company.