ASYTQ is een apart geval
misschien hebben sommigen onder ons de (definitieve?) teloorgang van WAMUQ gevolgd.
ASYTQ is ook onder chapter11 maar perssonlijk ben ik van mening dat dit verhaal nog niet ten einde is, en wel hierom.
crossing automation is de company die praktisch alle Assets van ASYTQ heeft overgenomen maar volgens mij kunnen ze enkel volledig autonoom werken als ze ook nog de IP rights verwerven, dit kan via een R/M reverse merger.
volgende informatie zet toch tot denken:
Het volgende is een uittreksel uit de laatste 10-K SEC Filing, filed by ASYST TECHNOLOGIES INC on 6/12/2008.
Intellectual Property
We pursue patent, trademark and/or copyright protection for most of our products. As of March 31, 2008, we held 125 issued United States patents and 273 foreign patents (including 102 issued patents in Japan). We have 60 patent applications pending in the United States, and 386 pending foreign patent applications (including 235 pending patent applications in Japan). Our issued patents expire between 2008 and 2025. We also have the right to use in our products 50 patents issued in Japan under a cross-license agreement with Shinko. These issued patents expire between 2008 and 2018. We intend to file additional patent applications as appropriate. There can be no assurance that patents will be issued from any of these pending applications or that any claims in existing patents, or allowed from pending patent applications, will be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Rights that may be granted under our patent applications that may issue in the future may not provide us competitive advantages or protections. Further, patent protections in foreign jurisdictions where we may need this protection may be limited, unavailable or not readily enforceable. While we intend to take reasonable and timely steps to establish our intellectual property rights to gain competitive advantage, there can be no assurance that we will obtain patents and other intellectual property rights.
en wat IP betreft geldt de volgende wetgeving:
A licensor in bankruptcy (or its bankruptcy trustee) has the option of assuming or rejecting a license. Generally, a debtor licensor can assume a license if it meets the same tests (cures defaults and provides adequate assurance of future performance) required to assume other executory contracts. Many licensees will not have a problem with assumption of their license as long as the debtor can actually continue to perform. Instead, the real concern for licensees is the fear of losing their rights to the licensed IP, which often can be mission critical technology, if the license is rejected.
Special protections. Recognizing this concern, the Bankruptcy Code, in Section 365(n), provides licensees with special protections. If the debtor or trustee rejects a license, under Section 365(n) a licensee can elect to retain its rights to the licensed intellectual property , including even a right to enforce an exclusivity provision. In return, the licensee must continue to make any required royalty payments. The licensee also can retain rights under any agreement supplementary to the license, which includes source code or other forms of technology escrow agreements. Taken together, these provisions protect a licensee from being stripped of its rights to continue to use the licensed intellectual property.
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