contract-law intellectual-property
Work contract and own IP
<p>I'm in contract negotiations with a company which have a trial period before offering full-time employment.</p>

<p>Reading the contract, I felt the wording around own IP was a little vague. I am working on my own side project with some co-founders and was worried that they would be able to claim IP ownership of our work.</p>

<p>I asked for clarification by email. They went one better and added an appendix on the end of the contract stating that the specific project would be owned by us.</p>

<p>I showed this to a solicitor I know. They were surprised that the main body of the contract didn't reference the newly appended appendix (the body remains as it was). I asked for an adjustment to include a reference to the appendix in the body. They said they could not do this (stating too much behind the scenes work).</p>

<p>I'm wondering: Is the appendix and the reference to the appendix in the email enough? Or is the absence of a reference to the appendix in the body of the contract damning for our project?</p>

<p>Yes and no to each question respectively.</p>
