This chapter examines your rights over inventions and designs created by your employees and contractors, and how to protect your business’s confidential information.
Where your employee creates a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work under the terms of your employment contract with them, you will own the copyright of that work.
If you employ or contract someone to make inventions that will ultimately be produced by your business, you can claim ownership of the employee’s or contractor’s invention.
A post-employment restraint may be justified to prevent a person who has acquired information in confidence from their employer from using that information to give themselves or their new employer an unfair head start competing in the market.