摘要 |
<p>Various methods of managing ideas include different combinations of following steps: (a) maintaining a computer database (22) for accumulating patentable ideas; (b) establishing contractual obligations by contributors to transfer property rights for contingent economic gain; (c) providing contingent contractual rights to at least some inventions derived from accumulated ideas (44); (d) enabling receipt of contributions of said ideas for database entry (30, 31, 32); (e) establishing contractual obligations for contributors of ideas to database to transfer property rights to inventions derived in part from accumulated ideas to transferees other than contributors of ideas from which inventions were derived.</p> |