Article: Good business means protecting your intellectual property.(Preserving Invention Rights)

John presents a problem to Ken and asks Ken to design and manufacture (invent) a solution. Ken spends over six months and three designs before he finds one he thinks will really work. Ken files a patent application for his invention. John keeps promising that his lawyer is drafting a contract for manufacture of the product, but in the meantime, insists that he needs all of Ken's detailed schematics and specifications.

Ken begins to provide some of that information and keeps good records of when and what information he provides to John. But Ken learns that no contract has been drafted by John's lawyer and becomes suspicious. Then Ken learns John is claiming he ...

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