A5295 · 2023–2024
Provides that employment provisions that require an employee to assign certain inventions shall be unenforceable
Signed into law, Chapter 434 of 2023
Makes unenforceable any employment agreement that forces an employee to assign to the employer inventions the employee creates on their own time, without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade-secret information, protecting workers' ownership of their own inventions. (Auto-generated summary)
On the Assembly floor this bill was replaced by its identical Senate companion S5640, which carried the measure forward; it was signed into law as Chapter 434 of 2023.
Official record
Official summary · NYS Open LegislationProvides that employment provisions that require an employee to assign certain inventions that are made on the employee's own time and which do not use the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information shall be unenforceable.
What it does: AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to inventions made by employees
Legislative history
- 2023-03-07Assembly: REFERRED TO LABOR
- 2023-05-22Assembly: REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
- 2023-05-24Assembly: REPORTED
- 2023-05-24Assembly: RULES REPORT CAL.242
- 2023-05-24Assembly: ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.242
- 2023-06-06Assembly: SUBSTITUTED BY S5640