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Post-employment invention assignment obligation invalidated as non-competion clause

In Applied Materials v. Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Company, a federal district court in Silicon Valley ruled that an invention assignment clause was invalid. The clause required former employees to assign inventions up to a year after the end of their employment. The court ruled that this was tantamount to an employee non-competition clause, which are illegal in California.

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