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that, you know, you own the TV but I own the TV
changer, so we better cooperate in resolving any
differences.
And so that was the thought was to kind of
create an ownership that I would have personally
which would help us in protecting CPSG as well.
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A: * * * And again, having the intellectual
property ownership in my hands personally meant at
least we were going to have a discussion about it.
A corporate resolution passed by CPSG, Inc.’s board of directors
stated that petitioner “may undertake such reasonable research
and development activities on * * * [CPSG, Inc.’s] behalf in
order to render and maintain the Company’s products as
commercially viable”. Indeed, on brief petitioners proposed that
we find that “It was clear to petitioner that in order to save
the business of CPSG more development had to be performed;”
“Petitioner believed that by creating intellectual property
rights outside of the CPSG/CPG/Syndicate relationship he would
have more negotiating leverage regarding any technology that he
developed;” and “Petitioner believed that if he had rights to the
technology he developed and CPG had rights to the underlying
technology, CPG and the Syndicates would have to cooperate with
him.” On brief, petitioners explained that “When Syndicate
funding ended, additional development had to be done for the
business of CPSG to survive.”
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