Just a thought, but the off shore fabs that make the gear could just as well sell the stuff unbranded. The issue might be less about "fake" and more about poor supplier control.
I worked at a company that had a built-in waiver. To my surprise, the waivers are based on State Law, and not US Law. However, some companies are open to waiving specifc items IF you can define them well enough. The defintion and description usually has to be specific enough that any change in concepts or implementation would be clear. One way of nailing down conceptual ownership is to prepare an exhaustive definition and mail it to yourself by registered mail. You get all those nice official date stamps. Make sure they stamp the envelope wherever it might be tampered with. Store the envelope somewhere safe, and if there is ever any doubt, show the envelope as proof of what you had before employment.
Someone may have already posted this, but a while back, a retired test engineer had a website with video of his misbehaving 7i series BMW. The errors were many, and the dealership indicated that the car was functioning normally inspite of numerous software problems. The car was running WinCE. Is the site still up?
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Just a thought, but the off shore fabs that make the gear could just as well sell the stuff unbranded. The issue might be less about "fake" and more about poor supplier control.
I worked at a company that had a built-in waiver.
To my surprise, the waivers are based on State Law, and not US Law.
However, some companies are open to waiving specifc items IF you can define them well enough.
The defintion and description usually has to be specific enough that any change in concepts or implementation would be clear.
One way of nailing down conceptual ownership is to prepare an exhaustive definition and mail it to yourself by registered mail. You get all those nice official date stamps. Make sure they stamp the envelope wherever it might be tampered with.
Store the envelope somewhere safe, and if there is ever any doubt, show the envelope as proof of what you had before employment.
Someone may have already posted this, but a while back, a retired test engineer had a website with video of his misbehaving 7i series BMW. The errors were many, and the dealership indicated that the car was functioning normally inspite of numerous software problems. The car was running WinCE. Is the site still up?