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It depends on your relationship with your company.<br>
If you own much of the company and are looking for funding,<br>
investors will want to see IP in the company. If you invented the<br>
subject matter as an individual, you own the patent, and should
assign<br>
rights to the company in exchange for something tangible (stock
shares<br>
or $1 are typical).<br>
<br>
Once companies are funded they typically have a requirement that all
employees<br>
must assign rights to IP invented for the company.<br>
<br>
If you can and want to retain ownership of the patent personally,
think about how<br>
you would make money with it under that scenario. That typically
means starting<br>
another company, assigning the IP to it, etc.<br>
<br>
Ed<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/7/2013 11:15 AM, Anders Nelson
wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all,</span>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I
submitted a provisional patent application a few weeks ago and
now I have to decide if I want it assigned to me personally or
to my company. Does anyone have experience with this? My
instinct is to assign it to myself, but I hear it's common for
investors and other interested parties to desire any IP be
associated to the corporate entity. What should I doooooo?</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I await
your infallible wisdom!</div>
<div>--<br>
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+1 (517) 775-6129<br>
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