Came across couple of interesting articles on LOI and work for hire clauses in outsourcing contracts from a legal point of view.
The “Work For Hire” clause:
A key concern for product company in outsourcing its product development is owership of IP for the product being development by the outsourcing partner. Many firms would like to [...]
Forbes recently published a special report on outsourcing titled Inside Outsourcing with a number of good articles and op-ed pieces. You can view all the articles here: http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/28/labor-technology-innovation-oped-cx_hra_outsourcing08_0529lander_land.html
One of the op-ed articles that I found particularly interesting is title “For Innovation, Look Externally” by Edward Bernstein. Here is what he says:
The world is becoming increasingly [...]
We are living in a world of wireless and wired networks that bring applications, information and entertainment to individuals and connect them in radically evolving ways. Products and technologies such as smart phones, iPods, STBs, IPTV, home networking, RFID, 3G and WiFi are making the vision of pervasive computing more possible in the real world. [...]