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If your company was acquired by someone and then they ask you to file patents on the IP that you sold them, then what's so wrong with doing it? Rather than bit
by gm 15y ago
If your company was acquired by someone and then they ask you to file patents on the IP that you sold them, then what's so wrong with doing it?
Rather than bitch and whine at Yahoo, why not bitch and whine at your decision to sell to Yahoo in the first place?
Granted, I think that when you cooperated with the lawyers and helped them apply for patents on the ideas they acquired, you acted professionally and in good faith.
If you had purposefully not cooperated and the post was about how you fooled them and they did not patent any of your ideas, that would have been professional suicide, and would be best posted anonymously.
So yeah, Yahoo's pursuit of patents is stupid, and this latest action is truly despicable. But you did what you were supposed to do.