Comment by paul7986

6 years ago

A mutual NDA was signed as seen here https://ryanspahn.com/motorola-google-Expired-NDA2013.pdf.

We started SpeakerBlast in March 2013 & were meeting with Google in April 2013. We filed a provisional before the meeting & have a patent in the patent office.

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bspn  6 years ago

NDAs generally aren't worth the paper they're written on, but holy hell is that one a piece of work. The "residuals" concept basically gives them an open invite to copy anything they like so long as they didn't "intentionally memorize" it. Establishing intent is no easy task.

  • rkangel  6 years ago

    The one thing that NDAs do extremely well, and the reason that companies like them signed is protect against prior art (the opposite of what we're talking about above). Without an NDA, if you've had a conversation with another company about your tech, then it has become public domain and you can be prevented from patenting. With NDA that problem doesn't exist.

    • cma  6 years ago

      Conversation with a company doesn't count as prior art under new first-to-publish rules.

  • eftychis  6 years ago

    Yes, establishing intent to memorize is near impossible. You would have to have something like written records (e.g. emails) stating the intent.