What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York
I am employed in as a service/maintenance technician in a high-speed production factory.
I invented a device outside working hours using prior experience in my home workshop (where I run a part-time consulting business) for checking a machine alignment, which is patentable. My employers now demand (under implied threat of termination) that I design and build one for them (on their time, with their parts) even though I am not employed as a design engineer.
It's fairly obvious that they want to copy my design and sell it.
Can they fire me for refusing to design and or build a unit for them?
I am employed in as a service/maintenance technician in a high-speed production factory.
I invented a device outside working hours using prior experience in my home workshop (where I run a part-time consulting business) for checking a machine alignment, which is patentable. My employers now demand (under implied threat of termination) that I design and build one for them (on their time, with their parts) even though I am not employed as a design engineer.
It's fairly obvious that they want to copy my design and sell it.
Can they fire me for refusing to design and or build a unit for them?
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