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The IP Glass Bead Game

Explanation about the issue of Intellectual Property

Primary beads explaining the concept of the BCNGroup bead games

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There is a specific procedure that we have worked out for making a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) very specific and time limited.

 

It is called a IP Glass Bead Game and uses a Groove collaborative environment “IP Sandbox”. 

 

The guiding social behavioral pattern is the doctoral committee and the doctoral candidate.

 

The candidate makes a proposal that is then considered by a committee.  By principle the committee serves the candidate’s interest.  The candidate has made a claim that he/she has

 

1)         developed an original contribution to the scholarly literature

2)         made a complete and extensive review of all relevant scholarship

3)         is able to demonstrate competence in a field of scholarship

 

The committee makes an evaluation of this claim and may help the candidate in fully developing the contribution. 

 

In analogy to the doctoral committee, the Consulting Committee for a IP Sandbox, serves the candidate in his/her attempt to make clear a claim that there is an original contribution, that a complete literature review has been made, and that the candidate is able to demonstrate competence in a relevant field of application.

 

The enforcement mechanism for the IP Sandbox takes into account the experience and knowledge of the Consulting Committee.  Thus it is assumed that each member of the Consulting Committee will almost immediately understand the candidate’s invention/discovery.  Moreover, it is assumed that in interacting with the candidate that individual members of the committee will develop new intellectual property based on and similar to the candidate’s invention/discovery. 

 

Time is therefore of essence.  To allow the candidate a specific period of time to use US Constitutional provision for patent protection, a period of 6 weeks is provided once the Glass Bead Game begins.  During this time, the individual members of the Consulting Committee enter into a subject specific Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).  The NDA is developed as a binding legal agreement between parties, not to include OntologyStream Inc or the BCNGroup Org as a participant in the NDA.  During this six-week period the candidate will be assisted in developing the concept and the reduction to practice required of a patent application.  

 

Ownership is the key issue.  The candidate will compensate the members of the Consulting Committee.  Specific terms are set into the governing NDA. The filing of the patent is made entirely the responsibility of the candidate.  The candidate will own relevant patent applications filed during the six-week period of time. 

 

At the end of the six weeks period, it is deemed that no persistent legal binding are enforceable based on the signed NDA.