With 2 million dollars in steriods will Mc&#39;Dubious not be happy?<br><br>bernard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Joram Mwinamo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:joram.mwinamo@gmail.com">joram.mwinamo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Yes he is , if he had checked the patents database,he would have realised it already existed, then gone ahead to behave like all the big name tech companies and done it anyway and pay mcdubious millions of dollars after a 2 year lawsuit<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Bernard Mwagiru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmwagiru@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmwagiru@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

What if Mc&#39;Dubious held IP rights to the idea and still went ahead to bla bla at the CEO, and the CEO pretended not to listen to it only for the idea to be seen on a billboard along Waiyaki Way? Is Mr.CEO liable for patent infringement?<br>

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<br>bernard</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Joram Mwinamo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:joram.mwinamo@gmail.com" target="_blank">joram.mwinamo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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The CEO would not sign it, then he would not listen to Mc&#39;Dubious anyway<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Bernard Mwagiru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmwagiru@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmwagiru@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">What if Mc&#39;Dubious presents Mr.CEO with a Non Disclosure Agreement before talking about his grand idea?<br>


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bernard</font><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Catherine Ndavi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:catherine.ndavi@gmail.com" target="_blank">catherine.ndavi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">@washington..thats very true, the idea will be listened to, then and renamed by Mr. C.E.O<br>


et al...<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>






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<div>On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:35, saich <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:saiched@gmail.com" target="_blank">saiched@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 Let’s draw parallels if Steve Jobs were a Kenyan. He did call the Intel CEO when he was 12 years old, explaining that he had a technical invention that he thought would be of help to the company. And the Intel CEO bought into his idea, and gave him a space and lab and equipment to bring his ideas to light. Let’s fictionalize how the conversation might have gone if he were a Kenyan.</p>









<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">




So, let’s assume that he is Mc&#39;Dubious here and the Intel CEO would be  a CEO of a telecommunications/media company.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">




<br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">here is how the conversation would play out</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">




 </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"><b>Mc&#39;Dubious</b>: Hi, Sir, I’m Mc&#39;Dubious. I have an amazing technology that I believe would be of help to your company.</p>




<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>CEO: </b> And where did you develop the technology. Who helped you?</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









<b>Mc&#39;Dubious</b>: No, I developed it myself, after the school classes. </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><div>









<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>CEO:</b> So, you are still in school?</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mc&#39;Dubious:</b> Yes Sir.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>CEO:</b> Don’t you think it would have been better if you had finished school and then bring up the idea when you are through with school.</span></div>









<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mc&#39;Dubious</b>: No, but I already figured out the problem, so it makes no difference.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>CEO</b>: Listen, young man, or boy, finish school first, and then we’ll talk when you can come with the appropriate qualification and papers.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mc&#39;Dubious</b>: But won’t you give me a chance sir, just to demonstrate it?</span></div>









<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>CEO:</b> Listen, I will not enter into discussions with a kid. What do you know anyway.*hangs the phone quickly.*</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Mc&#39;Dubious</b>: But, but…but….</span></div>









<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">









 </p></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And the dream would have died like that. And young Mc&#39;Dubious would have been subsumed into the system, learning to adopt and stay afloat and twenty or thirty years, is a creative ghost of his former self. </span></div>









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<font color="#333333" face="&#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">I know this has happened or is bound to happen to many of you out there....<br><br>


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</blockquote></div></div><div><br>On the contrary, like has happened somewhere around, in this time and age, CEO would invite Mc&#39;Dubious, have a discussion, get the whole idea and then what follows is Mc&#39;Dubious would see his idea flying elsewhere under a different name!!!<br>








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