I read thru it real quick. Yikes, I see what you mean about the wording. But
I think I understood it. Great idea. How significant was the performance
boost?
Johnie Stafford
McKinney, TX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 1:56 PM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Publication rights question
>
> I have a single patent to my name
> <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
> Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch
> -
> bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22International+Busines
> s+Machines%22.ASNM.&s2=Norcutt.INNM.&OS=AN/>
> It's assigned to IBM as owner (my employer at the time) but I and my two
co-
> inventors are listed as the inventors. I conceived the basic idea, Ted
Waldron
> did the really difficult task of implementing it in a real system and Khoa
> Huynh did the performance verification to prove that it really worked.
But it
> should be clear that IBM gave credit where due.
> Incidentally, if you read the patent and don't understand it don't be
> concerned. Even though the basic idea was mine I hardly understand the
> language of the patent myself after the patent attorney's got through with
> the wording. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/1/2013 10:50 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
> >>
> >> A friend of mine saw my dragstrip sunset photo and suggested I submit
> >> it to Hot Rod Magazine.
> >>
> >> I looked at their website, and found the disclaimer for
> >> reader-submitted material. Essentially, if they use my photo, I sign
> >> over all rights to them, forever, and they can do whatever they want
> >> with it, wherever they want to, on whatever media they choose,
> >> including any media that might be invented sometime in the future. And
I
> get nothing in return.
> >>
> >> Obviously, I'm not going to do that.
> >>
> >> My question however: Is that the norm?
> >>
> >
> > Sure is, and it's pretty much intellectual property theft by
extortion.
> You'd be amazed and the ways organizations and employers go about legally
> stealing intellectual property from individuals. I almost joined an
organization
> within the UofA agricultural co-op until I read the fine print of the
contract
> and saw in plain language that they had all rights to anything that you
came
> up with if you joined. And here I was, developing seasonally adjuasted
> powders that would duplicate the chemistry of natural rainfall for use in
> germinating native plant seeds.
> >
> > In Germany employers can not assume absolute ownership of the
ideas
> of employees. The employer has a limited time (two years, I think) in
which
> they can make use of the ideas, and after that all rights revert to the
> employee. And even if they do use the idea the employee remains as the
> inventor. Over here in the US employees are robbed of their ideas and
> promptly thrown out into the street. That happened to me once, and a
> number of subsequent employers tried but failed.
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
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