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> In Canada, IP assignment only is for work done on company time & equipment unless otherwise assigned in your employment contract.

That's true, but it's usually part of the boilerplate. I'm not suggesting it's related to the perceived problem, but every research position I've been in has had a clause like that. One place even offered to change it for me, saying "oh that's just some boilerplate the lawyers used."

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I've worked for four different companies here in Canada—two of them startups—and none of them asked for anything except standard IP assignment (e.g., time/equipment) and disclosure of in-progress or previously created works.

I work for a Canadian company and IP assignment is written in the standard contract boilerplate. AFAIK it's never been enforced, but it's there.

It was in my employment contract the last time I switched jobs. I got it taken out.

Were they research positions?

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