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It depends on the employment contract you may have had with your previous employer. Some stipulate that anything you invent or develop while in their employment become their property. On the other hand - if your invention had nothing to do with your employment, and it was something you developed away from company property and on your own time, you may have a perfectly valid sole claim to it.

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