Would not the corporation have to renew the patent at some point? Tom ============================================ Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) *NM Foundation for Open Government* <http://nmfog.org> *Check out It's The People's Data <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>*
============================================ On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:55 PM Ron Newman <ron.new...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was awarded a software patent 30 years ago while at a corporate job. > That patent has since expired, of course. I assume I signed a > work-for-hire agreement the first day on that job. > > Now that it's expired, I also assume the corporation still owns the code, > and so I'm not free to open source it. Correct? > > Any IP attorneys here? > > Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. > Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling > www.RonPiano.com > Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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