Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Florida

Intellectual Property
I am a computer programmer who wrote a program at my current job that is used entirely within my company. There are other companies that are not competitors that are interesed in buying this program. I asked my Cheif Information Officer if I would be able to re-write the program at home, starting entirely from scratch on my own time and with my own computer, and sell it. He told me I would not be able to do so because it is intellectual property of the company I work for. Is this correct? Isn't the intellectual property the program and the code that makes up the program? The only form I have signed states that anything I create on my company's equipment and/or on my company's time is property of my company. Thanks for your help!

Asked on 4/19/07, 1:04 pm

Alan Wagner Wagner, McLaughlin & Whittemore P.A.

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Re: Intellectual Property

What you create at your company is a work for hire and is almost always the property of the company.

Answered on 4/19/07, 2:02 pm

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