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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

The Royalty Ship has sailed. Focus on what you can get in the future. Your only hope of getting any royalty money from what you have done hangs on whether you can prove that you did the work on your ...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

I'm going to go against the other answers here: Even though ideally you would have negotiated before hand, there's still a chance that you can get some money and good contacts out of this. I'm basing ...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

I worked for a large US company, but in the UK, and one rather clever guy working there obtained a number of patents for himself, regarding compression techniques. Unfortunately, I am not aware of the ...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

I started working on the product over the weekend in my personal time and it works perfectly. It only needs to do site testing but everything works correctly. I want to claim royalties or something to ...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

You may want to look at other questions here and on the Law stack about intellectual property rights. Generally, in a work-for-hire situation, the rights are part of what you are being paid to produce,...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

Your company will almost certainly own the rights to the product. Your benefit from making the product is the salary you received while creating it. No company will pay its employees for products ...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

Now that you've done the work, it's probably too late to negotiate a bonus for that. Your employer will argue that you did all this during (paid or unpaid) overtime, so all intellectual property ...
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How to claim royalties for product design and coding after the fact, when I did not negotiate an arrangement beforehand

If you wanted to do this, you needed to have a discussion about it with your employer before you started doing any work for it (even on your own time) and absolutely 100% before they paid for anything....
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