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title: 'Enterprise Minnesota: Four Questions with Pat Shriver'
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  name: Heather Morrison
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date: '2014-01-01T19:29:00+00:00'
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# Enterprise Minnesota: Four Questions with Pat Shriver

Does it surprise you to know that manufacturers don’t automatically own the rights to inventions that their employees develop on the job?

FMJ [Intellectual Property](https://www.fmjlaw.com/practice-area/intellectual-property/) attorney [Pat Shriver](https://www.fmjlaw.com/professional/ernest-pat-shriver/) gave an interview on this topic for the “Four Questions” feature in *Enterprise Minnesota*.

Read the whole article **[here](http://issuu.com/enterpriseminnesota/docs/jan_2014__full_issue-reduced_size_/15?e=9200942/6706885)** to learn about “shop rights” and “assign all inventions” clauses.

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