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Why is my comment 'dead'?
I submitted to following comment to "Developers' side projects". Can someone please explain why and how this became dead? Is it because I'm a defense contractor?
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As an engineer at a defense contractor, I recently had to go through the process of having my company waive my '100% IP ownership' clause so that I could work with a startup on my own time without fear of putting them in jeopardy. It took about 3 weeks to process the paperwork, and answer a lot of questions, but eventually the paperwork was signed. It only allows me to work freely with the one startup.
However, the important issue here is the opportunity companies are missing by not offering any significant profit sharing from disclosed inventions. If I submit IP to my company and it gets patented, I get a $500 check. That's idiotic because it dissincentivises significant innovation, but it's unfortunately common place.
To solve the dilema, companies simply need to get their greedy heads out of their rears and offer inventors a profit share percentage such as 10%. If they don't accept, the inventor should be able to do with the invention as they please, which includes selling or licensing.
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- DanBC 10y agoThe comment is duplicated. One of the duplicates is marked as dead. The other is still available. Dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13143935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13143935 Not dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13143933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13143933