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Hello,
I am currently working freelance for a small business making pistol grips. I do all the computer design work, CAM machine output programing for the CNC and sometimes run the machine, finish, package and ship.
The company is somewhat stagnating and I'm concerned with it's future. I am looking into expanding my existing company into manufacturing grips myself. My question is, do I have any right to the designs I've made to this point? I want to use them, as well as other designs I've worked on in my free time, for my product line.
There was no NDNC or any contract signed with the company I am subbing for. There is no paper trail other than a couple emails back and forth acknowledging I work with the company, and my weekly checks for the hourly rate I get paid, made out to my company- not directly to me.
So, do I have any right to my design work? What do you all think?
Thank you!
-gripman
Hello,
I am currently working freelance for a small business making pistol grips. I do all the computer design work, CAM machine output programing for the CNC and sometimes run the machine, finish, package and ship.
The company is somewhat stagnating and I'm concerned with it's future. I am looking into expanding my existing company into manufacturing grips myself. My question is, do I have any right to the designs I've made to this point? I want to use them, as well as other designs I've worked on in my free time, for my product line.
There was no NDNC or any contract signed with the company I am subbing for. There is no paper trail other than a couple emails back and forth acknowledging I work with the company, and my weekly checks for the hourly rate I get paid, made out to my company- not directly to me.
So, do I have any right to my design work? What do you all think?
Thank you!
-gripman