An Employee Leaves a Company and Has Been Developing One

question 95

Multiple Choice

An employee leaves a company and has been developing one of its products for the last 3 years.That product is a glue that remains tacky for hours, enabling certain types of art work to be performed.After he leaves the company, the employee joins another company and finalizes the glue development for his new company.Who is likely to own the rights of the intellectual property involved in the formulation of the glue?

• A)The employee; he invented it.
• B)The original company who paid for the product to be developed.
• C)The new company because the product was released while the employee worked for them.
• D)The glue cannot be considered intellectual property.

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