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Interesting developments at Palm Beach Dyno
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<blockquote data-quote="JPKII" data-source="post: 16917579" data-attributes="member: 12867"><p>Different industry, but same concern with protecting digital/software rights. We write a lot of original code for machine control. Similar to what Ford would write within the ECU for control (PIDs, PWM for injector control, etc.). This nitty gritty of how a machine operates. </p><p></p><p>So you can imagine when we write code for a large application or create some code that manages motor protection, etc. we want to protect the IP that goes into that code. </p><p></p><p>Our legal department advised us that Patenting code is costly, time consuming, and only creates future concerns by having to defend and enforce the Patent. So what we do is lock the code and add comments within the code stating that this is our IP and is protected. In the courts eyes this demonstrates a reasonable attempt to protect our IP and if a competitor copied our IP, it would give us grounds to take legal actions. Have we ever done it? No. As much as people like to think we are inventing time travel, the fact is, if you are worth a shit as a programmer, you can emulate the same functionality 8000 different ways without stealing someone's IP. Not unlike tuning a car where you are only modifying parameters. If you tune for a living, it really shouldn't be that difficult to jump ship and recreate those parameters. After all, its the knowledge of the process that allows a good calibrator to create those parameters. That process knowledge is never lost. Unless they are a grifter. Then they are ****ed. lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JPKII, post: 16917579, member: 12867"] Different industry, but same concern with protecting digital/software rights. We write a lot of original code for machine control. Similar to what Ford would write within the ECU for control (PIDs, PWM for injector control, etc.). This nitty gritty of how a machine operates. So you can imagine when we write code for a large application or create some code that manages motor protection, etc. we want to protect the IP that goes into that code. Our legal department advised us that Patenting code is costly, time consuming, and only creates future concerns by having to defend and enforce the Patent. So what we do is lock the code and add comments within the code stating that this is our IP and is protected. In the courts eyes this demonstrates a reasonable attempt to protect our IP and if a competitor copied our IP, it would give us grounds to take legal actions. Have we ever done it? No. As much as people like to think we are inventing time travel, the fact is, if you are worth a shit as a programmer, you can emulate the same functionality 8000 different ways without stealing someone's IP. Not unlike tuning a car where you are only modifying parameters. If you tune for a living, it really shouldn't be that difficult to jump ship and recreate those parameters. After all, its the knowledge of the process that allows a good calibrator to create those parameters. That process knowledge is never lost. Unless they are a grifter. Then they are ****ed. lol. [/QUOTE]
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