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Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement Template (India)

Startup India (Invest India) · Startup India (startupindia.gov.in) Free Beginner India

This is a ready-to-fill IP assignment and confidentiality agreement hosted on the government's own Startup India portal, so it is drafted for Indian law and free to use. It gives a non-lawyer the actual assignment and confidentiality language to adapt for a developer and get signed. Treat it as a starting point: it is written employer to employee, so swap the party labels for a contractor engagement and, ideally, have a lawyer glance at the final version.

  • A complete, fillable IP assignment plus confidentiality template with blanks for the parties, drafted for the Indian context.
  • Comes from the official Startup India (Invest India) portal, so it is a credible free base rather than a random web template.
  • Framed employee to employer, so adapt the party terms for a freelancer and, when the code really matters, run the final draft past a lawyer.
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It answers 3 questions

  1. Who legally owns the code and design if I hired a freelancer or agency to build my product?
  2. One co-founder wrote most of the code before we incorporated. Who owns that IP, and how do we make sure the company does?
  3. Do I need employment contracts and IP assignment from my co-founders and first employees, or is a handshake fine?

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