# Atlassian Legal Response — Perseus Employee Invention Disclosure

**Date:** 2026-06-01  
**From:** Gaurav Asthana (Head of IP, Atlassian) <gasthana@atlassian.com>  
**To:** Thomas Connally <tconnally@atlassian.com>  
**CC:** Jared Kons <jkons@atlassian.com>  
**Subject:** Re: Employee Invention Disclosure — AI Context Management Patent

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## Original Email

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for reaching out. Atlassian legal normally does not review side projects, as we do not have the internal resources to review and formally approve or reject such work. We ask that Atlassians follow our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and Outside Activities Guidelines to help with the self-assessment. Employees should understand their obligations under those rules, including ensuring that their work does not create any conflicts of interest with their obligations to Atlassian. 

In general, the onus is on the employee to determine whether their outside work meets the four criteria in the above Outside Activities Guidelines. Due to the fluid and changing nature of such projects we cannot confirm whether it is ok or if the employee will have full ownership, hence the ongoing self-assessment. At a minimum, the project must be unambiguously segregated with respect to the time she spends and the devices, property, and resources used by the employee.  cc: Jared Kons for visibility.

Best,
Gaurav Asthana
Head of IP

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## Analysis

- **No formal review** — Atlassian declined to review or claim Perseus. Standard practice.
- **Self-assessment standard** — governed by Outside Activities Guidelines (four criteria). Key requirement: no conflict of interest, no company time/resources/IP, no competitive overlap.
- **Clean segregation is the linchpin** — must be unambiguous: personal hardware, personal time, personal accounts/tools.
- **Good paper trail** — written record that legal was informed and declined to review/claim. Better than silence.
- **Jared Kons likely internal IP paralegal/counsel** — standard internal visibility, not escalation.

## Action Items

- [x] Disclosure submitted to Atlassian legal
- [x] Response received and filed
- [ ] Maintain ongoing segregation (personal devices, time, resources)
- [ ] Proceed with patent filing under self-assessment
