Girard: Attorneys omitted IP assignment clause from lead programmer uncle's contract
Derek Girard · Self-Confidence Is a Terrible Substitution for Self-Awareness · Jun 6, 2025 · at 7:44
Derek Girard explains why his tech startup faced a federal lawsuit over code ownership after discovering an omission by his initial corporate lawyers.
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“And we went back to our first, we went back to our first attorneys and I said, this is what they're claiming. He said, no, we put an assignment in every document we do. And I said, great. Where's that assignment? Where's that, that sentence? And he said, oh shoot, we forgot to put it in yours.”
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