Nicole Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Kiesling wrote:
> >
> > Could a person receive a federal grant if they were also in a
> > publicly funded university, free or not?
>
> Yes, students can receive federal grants for developing... it's
> independent of stature as a student (applying as an *individual* rather
> than a part of a *corporation*). I don't think there are any limits on
> federal grants within reason with regards to students in publicly funded
> universities.
>
> > Also, if the student is in the employ of the university, can the
> > university claim it has a right to the work, as many companies do for
> > the original work of their employees?
>
> If you were developing software for someone, and decided to patent the
> idea, yes, I think they could claim a right.
>
> But, this is an independent project... has not been brought up but to a
> few professors (as consultants) and they have actually warned him of
> this possibility.
Yeah, if the project were collaborative, and he requested the advice,
then it would be the consultants' job to make him aware of possible
snags.
>
> It (the ADT in question) probably will not be *finished* until after
> he's out of school anyway.... at least not into the patent-able market
> (and it could be very different by then).
I think that's one of those "forseeable future" kinds of things. If
there's no short-term gain, then they might not be interested.
Not that I want to grasp at straws here... but a lot of universities
have rules about outside consulting... and if there were a
bureaucratic problem with that, then a university might offer
funding of its own to maintain the project, and, of course, the
institution benefits.
> > I think the whole subject of the debate is paternalistic and
> > big-brotherish, personally,
>
> Software patents in general?
Abuse of the patent system and inefficiencies of software patents
notwithstanding, the idea that any single person can prescribe what
the finished product will be.
Robert
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