puzzled_by_ny

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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
It's about the contract, not what you choose to call the thing. Sorry if I offended you. We could call it "Mickey Mouse Playhouse" and it would still not matter. The contract is the only important language here. If you&#x2
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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
Amazing that I never thought of that. Thanks.
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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
Once you grant them a license to your IP it might as well be free. This in the sense that they can transfer the license to someone else, manufacture your device, use it and you won't see a dime for it. From your perspective, the IP o
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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
You conveniently skipped over the part where they require you to grant an irrevocable and transferable license to your IP for up to two years with the express ability of reproducing and using this IP. That is not a trivial matter at all.
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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
Yet another take. If this is, as you state, just a call for proposals, why in the world are they asking for an irrevocable and transferable license to participants IP that could last up to two years? Put a different way: If this is just a
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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
> And why are you calling it an incubator? It's terminology they used during conversations. On the site they also call it "accelerator". Don't focus on semantics. As is the case for patents, where the blah-blah does
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by puzzled_by_ny 6y ago
You really need to read the two contracts. One of them being an addendum related to COVID-19. That's why I provided links to everything. The only reason I had to summarize my findings is that HN limits posts to 2,000 characters...so
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New York incubator requires participants to grant IP rights
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