sunandshine

Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer on Saturday June 08, 2019 @02:22PM (#20134110)

> Am I a developer? I don’t know.

I would say the title "Research Engineer" could fit quite well based on what you describe!

Re:Our grant application was leaked to a competitor, who is now planni... on Saturday June 03, 2017 @11:11AM (#14476731)

I don't know why you would say this but this is simply not true. Our confidential information was leaked, there is an incoming lawsuit, and we are trying to find the right course of action. The government department was tarred the moment they leaked our application to our competitor.

Re:Our grant application was leaked to a competitor, who is now planni... on Saturday June 03, 2017 @09:28AM (#14476285)

You mean that they might start filing for patents now, based on the contents of our grant application? That's something we hadn't considered as a possibility. :-/

Re:Our grant application was leaked to a competitor, who is now planni... on Saturday June 03, 2017 @09:26AM (#14476280)

It is not clear at this point. To the best of my knowledge, there is no relevant patent for our so-far activities. Selling like crazy is good advice and we are going to do exactly that. :-)

Our grant application was leaked to a competitor, who is now planning to sue

Posted by sunandshine on Saturday June 03, 2017 @05:41AM
from the self-post dept.

A bit of background first: we are a young startup who has started getting visibility and traction in a small but very competitive market. In an effort to expand towards a new direction, we applied for a government R&D grant which, somehow, found its way to one of our competitors. As of now, it is unclear how this happened. The most likely scenario is that a founder of the competitor company...

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