IP transfer question

[Larry Brasfield]

"James Meyer" <jmeyer@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:44:15 -0700, "Larry Brasfield"
donotspam_larry_brasfield@hotmail.com> wroth:

"Walter Harley" <walterh@cafewalterNOSPAM.com> wrote in
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"James Meyer" <jmeyer@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:g8qv41heaviputq398s0hvha32nkn1ferr@4ax.com...
Someone who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client. That's a
trite saying, but like many, is true.

I have a lawyer. I'm trying to gain additional points of view.

There was no evidence in your original post that you intended
to act as your own lawyer.

Walter said, "I want to write a contract..." That was what I was
replying to.

Mr. Meyer's reproach was both
premature and irrelevant to the clear questions you raised.


My original reply also included this, which you might have missed...

Find one lawyer that both you and the other guy can trust, split the
fees, and sit down with him so both of you can explain what you want the
contract to cover and not cover. If the two of you can't work that out, then no
contract, even one *you* write, will be worth the paper it's written on.

Jim "not premature, but full term" Meyer

Given that information, (which I did not see), my comments
were too strongly stated. It appears that you and I agree
on at least one useful role for a lawyer. (I have taken the
exact approach you suggest with one lawyer. After he gave
the obligatory spiel about representing competing interests,
he went ahead and did exactly what we (the parties) wanted.)

Please accept my apology for any offense.

--
--Larry Brasfield
email: donotspam_larry_brasfield@hotmail.com
Above views may belong only to me.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:23:14 -0700, Walter Harley wrote:

"Frank Raffaeli" <SNIPrf_man_frTHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message

Rich's face-to-face meeting suggestion is SOP.

I totally agree. I need to be prepared before that meeting, though - it's
hard to book time with him and he's a couple thousand miles away.

A phone call is significantly cheaper than a plane trip. And quicker than
a car trip, by orders of magnitude! ;-)

I've even done business like this by email, albeit to the tune of a few
hundred bucks' worth of services.

Ask your client/friend/partner how he (she?) feels about product
improvements. Like, in your phone con, ask, "What if I change your
design and it makes even _more_ money? How would you like to split
the take on that?"

That sort of thing. Find a way to make everybody a winner, and how can
you lose? (Hey - I just made that up! Is it as clever as it sounds,
or is it the drugs?)

Good Luck!
Rich