Re: CLA question (was: Re: Regarding start of Community Group beta today (2011-06-28))

On 30 Jun 2011, at 20:07, Kristian Sons wrote:

> Company A has a bright idea for CG B and contributes it. Now it's published as agreed by CLA. For some reason, CG B is not successful and discontinues its work. Now company A decides to exploit the bright idea in a proprietary product and would like to protect the idea using a patent.

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Hi Kristian - since you have contributed (ie made public) the "bright idea", you will not be able to Patent it.

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Cheers

Renato Iannella
ODRL Initiative
http://odrl.net

Received on Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:13:52 UTC