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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Here is a paper on the History of IP and the American take on the issues of Copyright and Patent Law Issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Even for developed countries these laws are somewhat archaic.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+gabe.shompole=kentelcom.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Omo, John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 26, 2012 12:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gabe Shompole<br>
<b>Cc:</b> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thanks GG and Team.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">After WICKED, I’m taking the challenge to give a breakfast talk (in Westlands) on this if I someone would take the challenge to sponsor it?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kictanet [<a href="mailto:kictanet-bounces+omo=cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">mailto:kictanet-bounces+omo=cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Grace Githaiga<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Omo, John<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#333333">Ali</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#333333">Does the innovation belong to the employer considering it may have been developed to suit the needs of the employer? This might be open to various interpretations by different lawyers. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#333333">This caught my attention:</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#333333">"According to the letter, KRA has used the technovation and communicated it to a third party, although the law states that this entitles the technovator to “a remuneration which shall be fixed by mutual
agreement between the technovator and the enterprise.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#333333">This is because KRA went ahead to submit the system to an international innovation fair, where it won an award. It has since publicised the award, even on its website".</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:#333333"><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/KRA-caught-up-in-Sh1-billion-tender-row/-/1226/1623708/-/item/2/-/rpgfcm/-/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/smartcompany/KRA-caught-up-in-Sh1-billion-tender-row/-/1226/1623708/-/item/2/-/rpgfcm/-/index.html</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt; color:#333333"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:
<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a><br>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:58:01 +0300<br>
Subject: [kictanet] Dreams of a cosy career that turned into a nightmare<br>
CC: <a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">This is an interesting case study of the link between employer/employee relations on Intellectual Property. Who owns the IP when you invent/innovate while working
at a company and the invention/innovation is directly linked to the work you have been hired to do?</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">When Mr Samson Ngengi beat thousands of applicants to land the coveted position at the tax agency in December 2009, the graduate
of Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (JKUAT) had one thing on his mind; to ensure that he gets absorbed into the job</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Mr Ngengi came up with an innovation that links plot boundaries and location, ownership, and building details as well as tax
status of a taxpayer as a single view in a computer application, in an effort to give KRA an insight into how to get its pound of flesh from the lucrative real estate sector</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">His innovation was named the Geo-spatial Revenue Collection Information System (GEOCRIS). But little did he know that he would,
early in his career, find himself fighting his employer</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Is there a strong case here to also focus our Techpreneurs on the 'softer' stuff of turning their ideas/products etc into viable businesses? You know the boring
stuff...the nuts and bolts of building an enduring business? Protecting your business idea, building a business system to deliver on the values opposition, sales, legal standing (company registration) etc..</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">What would have happened if Samson had decided to quite his job at KRA and develop his idea independently?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">There has been lots of news of late about the hype that has become known as 'Silicon Savannah'. It would be sad if the hype is not concurrently followed by serious
efforts to build an ecosystem to support all these brilliant (and not so brilliant) ideas and turn them into strong enduring businesses. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">For every Cellulant there are maybe tens of others that will never see the light of day. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">There is a case here for a new type of Multi-stakeholder intervention - between government, private sector (VC, Companies etc) and Not For Profits. I suspect
this is already happening in some form or other. More focus is required.</span></p>
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