Re: Intellectual Property in Network Design

[Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+nanog () eintellegonetworks com>]

I like this take on it... thanks David.


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On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:27 AM, David Barak <thegameiam () yahoo com> wrote:

> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:38 AM, Skeeve Stevens <
> skeeve+nanog () eintellegonetworks com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Actually Bill... I have two (conflicting) perspectives as I said.... but
> to
> clarify:
>
> > 1) A customer asked 'Can you make sure we have the IP for the network
> design' which I was wondering if it is even technically possible....
>
> > 2) If I design some amazing solutions... am I able to claim IP.
>
> It is worth differentiating between the design itself and the
> documentation of said design.  The latter is clearly and totally IP, and
> you could present that to the customer as "theirs": theirs and not yours -
> that is, you would use different templates, naming conventions, etc. if you
> created from whole cloth a similar design for a different customer in a
> similar situation.  They may be attempting to make sure that their network
> documents don't show up as examples or other presentations for other
> customers.
>
> As an example, an architecture document or a network assessment would be
> covered by copyright law, and as such could be assigned to the author, the
> company which created it, or could be "work-for-hire" and assigned to the
> hiring company, depending on the contract in question.
>
> As to an amazing design solution, the USPTO has rules for that - you could
> patent your design, but in our line of work that'd be a high bar given
> prior art.
>
> David Barak
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