preinvention

Questions

What does preinvention mean?

Before the invention of something; applied to legal agreements in which an employee agrees to assign to his/her employer the rights to any invention he/she later creates while employed.

Where does preinvention come from?

From pre- + invention.

How to pronounce preinvention

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