BOBCAT COMPANY

While Bobcat Company (the "Company") is anxious to take every opportunity to improve its products and add profitable ones to its line, it has found certain precautions necessary in accepting disclosures of inventions. For example, its employees have varied and numerous ideas of their own, worked out in the past, or now being worked out, for the purpose of improving or adding to its many lines of machinery. Some of these ideas might , by chance, be similar to your own... We cannot agree to hold your invention in confidence for the reason, among others, that we must disclose the invention to various employees and sometimes even to those outside of our employ, to determine its value to us, and because agreements to hold in confidence have been found to entail other obligations not intented by either the inventor or the Company... A full written disclosure, preferably the patent application drawing and specification, if there are such, or if not, a sketch or drawing which need not be..