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Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then?
BinaryGrind writes "I just got started taking Computer Science classes at my local university and after reading Universities Patenting More Student Ideas I felt I needed to ask: How do I tell if any of my projects while attending classes will be co-opted by my professors or the university itself and taken away from me? Is there anything I can do to prevent it from happening? What do I need to do to protect myself? Are there schools out there that won't take my work away from me if I discover TheNextBigThing(TM)? If it does happen is there anything I can do to fight back? The school I'm attending is Southern Utah University. Since it's not a big university, I don't believe it has a big research and development department or anything of that ilk. I'm mostly wanting to cover my bases and not have my work stolen from me."
Hey, I was gonna say that! That was totally my idea...
"C'mon freedom cage, roll me to safety!" - Philip J. Fry
But your idea for a beer bong has already been taken. And don't even get me started on your ideas about transgendered midget porn.
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Are my ideas being stolen?
Is my mind being raped?
My intellect is being as****ked.
And now my ears they really gape.
(Like goatse, like goatse......)
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
This idea was invented by Shampoo.
This is what I thought, too.
Yes, I'm going to file a patent on "Calculating fibonacci numbers via recursion".
Well, I'm going to try to patent this data structure where the data element also points to another one, so all the data elements "know" where the next one is. I'm going to call it a "Connected List". I also have a "Double Connected List" in the works too. I'll license them for 100 billion dollars! I'll be rich!
he can sue that information
Freudian slip?
"Anyone who [rips a CD] is probably engaging in copyright infringement." - David O. Carson
I have this awesome idea for a game that involves cells "breeding" or "dying" based on how many neighbours they have. With certain cell configurations, the game will play itself indefinitely! I'm thinking of calling it "The Game of Death" - catchy, eh? Life of leisure, here I come!
The old story (this is the Ford/Tesla version):
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
I would find it more likely that it was invented by Cologne. 2000 years of Chinese Amazon history can't be wrong!
What?? I don't get it. He wrote an "X" on the boilerplate? WTF does that mean?
In fact, "doing it right" may have nothing to do with the concept, and everything to do with how you sell and license the concept. Windows is an excellent example of this.
$nice = $webHosting + $domainNames + $sslCerts
I have a new device that shreds Pokemon cards and reduces them to Ash.