Wettbewerbsverbot is yet another issue, when you switch to a competitor. Say I’m programming fullstack for my employer and start a Web App as hobby. How do I prove that this is not based on training my employer paid for? If it is in a totally unrelated field it would be easier.
My old contract says otherwise. The contract was generous enough to allow me to invent something in totally unrelated fields. Question would be how to proof that the work didn’t enable me to invent that stuff.
Sadly not the way it works. The employer can argue that the employment enabled you technically to invent something or to build something (Germany).
Perfect. I thought about some kernel level shenanigans which could be out of influence for third party vendors.
Is this verified, or does it still depend on how the mechanism is implemented?
That’s what they use to say here, too.
Still inventions and „creations“ while employed have their own law and regulation. I don’t know them in detail, but I understand that it can be fuzzy and complicated.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitnehmererfindung