just be really general (Score 2, Interesting)

Every time I've ever been asked to make a list of my prior inventions I've written down something like "System and Method of Manipulating Data" figuring that in the extremely unlikely event the issue both came to litigation and the ridicululous document were enforced, my last resort would be to claim that I had in fact declared whatever invention it was beforehand. The one advantage that you have is that just as the average person just signs it without understanding, the average company who makes people sign them just blindly accepts them back without reading or thinking. I've put down responses like this on probably 15-20 documents and always been handing them back inside a giant stack of lame legal forms. I'm pretty sure none of the recipients have ever actually read the answers I wrote down.