As an engineering student you are offered a lucrative summer job at a large tire manufacturing company. On your first day of work you are asked to sign an agreement assigning to the company all patent rights for your summer and the succeeding year. What do you do?

a. Sign the agreement, since your summer work will probably not produce anything patentable.

b. Ask that the agreement be altered to omit patentable work in areas outside those included in the summer job (e.g., thesis work).

c. Sign the agreement and hope the company does not hold you to it.

d. Refuse to sign and look for another job.