A Patentable Device

While working for your company, you invent a device that has a potential for making you wealthy. You used the company's lab and test facilities but did the work on your own time. What do you do with your invention?

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Answers

A Patentable Device: Answer A

Take it to the legal department for determination of ownership rights and appropriate disposition.
A Patentable Device: Answer B

See a local attorney and have him file for a patent in your name.
A Patentable Device: Answer C

Submit your invention for consideration for award in your company's "ideas count" program.
A Patentable Device: Answer D

Contact those companies who would have interest in your invention and sell it to the highest bidder.

Cite this page: "A Patentable Device" Online Ethics Center for Engineering 6/20/2006 National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Thursday, February 09, 2012 <www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/Case16.aspx>

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