Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock"

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 24, 2013 @07:48PM from the for-that-price-I'd-expect-at-least-two-rocks dept.

ilikenwf writes "For a cool $10,000,000.00, the prototype of a surveillance rock full of spy gadgets could be yours! More importantly, server backups from the gentleman's time at Lockheed are included, being the real valuable in this auction, as it contains schematics and such. The seller seems to think that the current xBee radio products are actually based on his work with Lockheed. The proceeds will go towards legal action the seller is apparently taking against his former employer." This may be the most unusual eBay product description I've ever encountered, and one of the most interesting, too.

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Re:IP Rights by Darinbob · 2013-08-24 20:50 · Score: 5, Interesting

Sounds like he was fired from the contract company that he was 10% owner of, and told that Lockheed did not buy the product (and thus no delivery of the final product). And now it appear that either Lockheed did buy the product after all or else it was sold at a later date to a third party (somehow xBee eventually got it). So he wants his 10%. The suit is against this contractor company.