Regulation

Making room for export compliance language in employment agreements that protect IP rights and proprietary information

Issue 19.
December 2021

Author
Matt Silverman
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Matt Silverman, JD, LLM is the Global Trade Director and Senior Counsel at VIAVI Solutions in Chandler, Arizona. Matt is the author of The Champions Network: A Blueprint to Expand Your Influence and Spread Big Ideas in Any Organization, Ignite Press (2023).
matthew.silverman@viavisolutions.com

It is increasingly common for companies to require new employees (especially those in the technology sector) to sign agreements that protect the intellectual property and proprietary rights of the company. These types of agreements are often referred to as Confidential (or Proprietary) Information and Inventions Assignment Agreements – CIIAAs (or PIIAAs) for short.

Such agreements serve to assign rights to a company of intellectual property (“IP”) that was created by an employee, during the ...

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