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E-Mail and intellectual property
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Is it perfectly okay to send an e-mail to the president of a corporation with a Non-disclosure Agreement and having it returned with the president's name (but not signature-although it's possible nowadays to get an electronic signature)proceed to disclose his novel idea or invention (clarify here please if there is a difference)through e-mailing the company president's e-mail address. Does this guarantee that the inventor's intellectual rights are protected? Is this the proper form to take or should the inventor really wait through the regular mail where the USPS is the property of the US Government unlike the World Wide Web which may or may not promise security and safeguards although one may wonder why the US Attorneys were able to use as evidence in the hunt for Bin Ladin certain e-mail as crucial damning evidence. Please give me the overall thinking about e-mail and intellectual rights. I am sure all that is needed to share a mutually agreed non-disclosure is a form signed (it came from the other person's personal e-mail address) by the knowee and returned to the inventor through e-mail. Is this all that is needed and will this guarantee the inventors intellectual rights? Please advise asap.

Asked on 8/26/02, 9:51 pm

Amy Ghosh Law Offices of Amy Ghosh

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Re: E-Mail and intellectual property

It is better to do it over the mail.

Answered on 8/26/02, 10:28 pm

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