问一个有关专利的问题

My question is regarding the patent in US.

The company I am working for is a big company located in US. There is a good idea about how our product should function, and the idea has been talked about for a while. Company has filed provisional patent application to protect the idea even though nobody knows what to do yet. This is not directly related to my work and I am not on the list of inventors.

Recently I have found the approach to solve the problem by myself. I am hesitated to disclose it to the company due to its potential commercial value. I believe I can use my own time to prototype it and prove it works. I am thinking the possibililty of applying my own patent when company's provisional patent expires, and sale it back to the company or other competitors.

Is this conduct legal or ethic? Can the company sue me for doing this because I have inside information?

Thanks in advance for any valuable input.

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• normally you need to acknowlege all existings (to your knowledge -qazx- ♂ (291 bytes) () 03/08/2010 postreply 15:42:12

• I think it's definitely un-ethic and probably illegal. -kabab- ♂ (528 bytes) () 03/08/2010 postreply 16:43:23

• 你绝对没有权利在工作期间用自己名义申请专利，除非和公司的业务范围相去千里。 -老太婆- ♀ (94 bytes) () 03/08/2010 postreply 20:04:34

• Everything you invent while being employed -shguy- ♂ (353 bytes) () 03/08/2010 postreply 20:23:21

• 回复：问一个有关专利的问题 -ToBe007- ♂ (311 bytes) () 03/09/2010 postreply 09:26:55