contract-law employment new-jersey
What is the extent of this &quot;invention&quot; clause in this contract?
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<p><strong>OWNERSHIP OF WORK PRODUCT, IDEAS, INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES AND TRADEMARKS</strong></p>
<p>I shall promptly disclose to (COMPANY) all ideas, inventions or
discoveries, whether or not patentable, which I may conceive or make,
alone or with others, during my employment, whether or not during
working hours, and which directly or indirectly:</p>
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<li>relate to matters within the scope of my duties or field of responsibility during my employment by (COMPANY); or</li>
<li>are based on my knowledge of the actual business or the actual or anticipated research and development of (COMPANY); or</li>
<li>are aided by the use of time, materials, facilities or information of (COMPANY).</li>
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<p>Hello. I hope you can provide some advice on my situation.</p>
<p>This is a part of my employment contract. I have omitted the name of the company. My location is NJ.</p>
<p>I work as a cloud engineer. Recently I've been thinking about a particular app/business idea and I've been putting some time and effort into it outside of work (weekends, or in the evenings during the week).</p>
<p>Since I would eventually like to implement this idea as a website / web application and utilize cloud technology in doing so, could this mean my employer owns the idea and anything I develop --since I would use the same technology for my idea that I do at work? Even though it is completely and utterly unrelated to the business model of my employer and I have not used work hours in my implementation of this idea? Would this also mean that any open-source software I develop outside of work automatically belongs to my employer?</p>
<p>What is the extent and limitations of such a clause, which I have agreed to?</p>

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<p>could this mean my employer owns the idea and anything I develop --since I would use the same technology for my idea that I do at work?</p>
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<p>No, unless by &quot;technology&quot; you mean the employer's <em>materials</em> or resources (see condition 3 of the clause). Your remark that &quot;<em>this is completely and utterly unrelated to [employer's] business model</em>&quot; survives items 1 and 2. Likewise, working on your idea <em>outside hours</em> survives the corresponding part of item 3.</p>
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<p>Would this also mean that any open-source software I develop outside of work automatically belongs to my employer?</p>
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<p>No, unless the software you develop is &quot;<em>based on [your] knowledge [etc.] of (COMPANY)</em>&quot;.</p>
