[July 4th]

Corporations own the intellectual property of proprietary processes, in return for which the creators of those processes get a paycheck and a pink slip, as if they are incapable of more. Such is "visionary" corporate leadership.

So, an employee gets the benefit of major corporate funding for his/her research, and should be able to move wherever they please and take the rights to that intellectual property with them? I don't think so.

[Carry_Okie]

So, an employee gets the benefit of major corporate funding for his/her research, and should be able to move wherever they please and take the rights to that intellectual property with them? I don't think so.

A piece of it, yes, but then I'm not a corporate collectivist.

[calex59]

Since the employee was the one who actually had the thoughts( and thoughts belong to the person who thinks them)and the ideas and the company provided the capital to put them into effect, they should be partners with the originator of the intellectual property gettting a percentage of the profits.

Instead they are kicked out the door when it suits the company and given nothing except a weekly paycheck which ends of course when the company decides to do away with them, with the company keeping the intellectual property and continuing to profit by it.

I would judge from your remarks that you think this is fair and right. I don't happen to agree. Without the intellectual property their capital would not gain them much, certainly not to the same degree they get from the profits made from the intellectual property of others.