[amsat-bb] Lost IP

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Thu Jul 16 19:28:49 UTC 2020


Sigh. I suspect this arose from improper intellectual property policy. This
work was intended to be added to an Open Source project, and and NDA was
not appropriate for it.

Adding to all of this is the fact that AHA is difficult to deal with
regarding intellectual property because, in my experience, they simply
don't understand it. I have gotten purported legal agreements from AHA that
were written by a salesperson rather than an attorney - and that is working
for a public company customer where the risk is much higher. And they are
known to have entirely lost the recipe for a product. I doubt the situation
is salvageable. A student's summer work got wasted and that is who is owed
an apology.

    Thanks

    Bruce


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