--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A follow-up thing I've been thinking about is I wondered where things stand when > it comes to Universities and Patents, particularly technical schools where quite > a bit of innovation takes place. I see professors as sort of signing over their > work in return for "protection" which is tenure, money, a lab, students (helpful > assistance), etc., with the bottom-line real wealth going to the universities if > anything really big-royalty comes up. > > But I may quite misunderstand all or some of it. I'm only going on the > once-every-ten-years I seem to hear anyone discuss this. The last time was when > I heard some stat on the number of patents per year associated with MIT or > something like that. > > I am not advocating trying to go with a University Protection Racket, > particularly not in your case as it does not seem to pertain (and discretion in > not mentioning the idea to anyone seems important) but I wonder if any > enterprising Universities, hoping to attract investment or Professors or > Business Partnerships or what-have-you have thought about specifying very good > terms for inventors who might associate themselves with the University Labs. > Maybe some Universities have well-developed patent-protection strategies in > place that have had some success and could act as an effective tool going > forward in offering good terms to those who choose to work for them instead of > Private Industry. And Law Schools might also be interested in actually > contributing to the Universities' Interests' Defense (gosh a double- possessive, > is that twice as bad as a double-negative?)
That approach may well be worth considering in the future. My project is beyond the development stage, and only needs to be implemented. I have one more legal requirement to meet to comply with the legalities of the financing, and that is an independant Feasability Study. I already have a more extensive Feasability Study done, and paid for. It legally needs to be confirmed by an independant source, before the funds can be released. I knew this in advance, and lined up a source for the funds. The money is in the account, earmarked for the independant Feasability Study. The disbursement of the funds have now been blocked by an additional requirement, which I am unable to meet. An 'undisclosed party' has offered to get me past this hurdle in exchange for ownership of the process. I highly suspect that the same 'undisclosed party' is the one that arranged for the hurdle to be placed. It is costing them a lot of money to maintain the block, and I have NO intention to yield to it. Motie ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
