Comments on: MN HF 907 Use it or loose it http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2009/02/19/mn-hf-907-use-it-or-loose-it/ making your ideas real.... Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Open Source Mechanic blog » Use it or lose it patent legislation proposed in Minnesota http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2009/02/19/mn-hf-907-use-it-or-loose-it/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Open Source Mechanic blog » Use it or lose it patent legislation proposed in Minnesota Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:52:34 +0000 http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/?p=360#comment-184 [...] friend Ron at inventorsagarage.com found this proposed Minnesota legislation which would grant an employee the right to use a patent if his/her employer sits on the patent for [...] [...] friend Ron at inventorsagarage.com found this proposed Minnesota legislation which would grant an employee the right to use a patent if his/her employer sits on the patent for [...]

]]> By: Bob Nepper http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2009/02/19/mn-hf-907-use-it-or-loose-it/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Bob Nepper Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:18:05 +0000 http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/?p=360#comment-144 An exemption for trade secrets could be readily added by allowing employers to appeal the release on the basis of a trade secret. This appeal section has been receommended but has not been added to the bill. With Minnesota unemployment at a 25-year high (and rising), it is insane to allow employers to ABORT every employee invention that they choose NOT to develop! Are we really concerned with Minnesota's economy? If we are, then we should release the brakes on new business and job growth by passing "Use or Return" (HF 907) Had I invented the Xerox process, at least two of my former Minnesota employers would have owned it and most likely would have readily ABORTED that fantastic invention! Since I DIDN'T invent it, my employers could not KILL IT, so It was "ALLOWED" to spawn a huge $50 BILLION annual xerographic industry creating 500,000 new jobs! (Yes, 1/2 MILLION JOBS!) (Wall Street Journal May 23, 1989) Now who is willing to step forward and defend our current JOB-DESTROYING rules? RFN An exemption for trade secrets could be readily added by allowing employers to appeal the release on the basis of a trade secret. This appeal section has been receommended but has not been added to the bill.

With Minnesota unemployment at a 25-year high (and rising), it is insane to allow employers to ABORT every employee invention that they
choose NOT to develop!

Are we really concerned with Minnesota’s economy? If we are, then we should release the brakes on new business and job growth by passing “Use or Return” (HF 907)

Had I invented the Xerox process, at least two of my former Minnesota employers would have owned it and most likely would have readily ABORTED that fantastic invention! Since I DIDN’T invent it, my employers could not KILL IT, so It was “ALLOWED” to spawn a huge $50 BILLION annual xerographic industry creating 500,000 new jobs! (Yes, 1/2 MILLION JOBS!) (Wall Street Journal May 23, 1989)

Now who is willing to step forward and defend our current JOB-DESTROYING rules?

RFN

]]>