Comment Re:Confidentiality agreement a killer (Score 1) 126
It says that everything
This still, like all such contracts, does contaminate you with their IP: restricting what you can later work on, even risking independent work suddenly becoming their property. If you work in even a slightly related field (neuroscience, AI) you might not want to risk it.
On the flip side this is fairly common legalise for a small technology company, the plain spoken description of their policy in the blog seems fairly reasonable if not binding. Consult a lawyer, pay a lot of money, and you probably still wont be sure exactly how it applies.
that you obtain or learn from Numenta
is their property, where Numenta is the corporation not the technology. I would seem to not cover derived discoveries: ie I assume that if you discover the secret to the universe from a physics HTM you would still own it, but algorithm's and the ideas in their whitepapers are theirs.This still, like all such contracts, does contaminate you with their IP: restricting what you can later work on, even risking independent work suddenly becoming their property. If you work in even a slightly related field (neuroscience, AI) you might not want to risk it.
On the flip side this is fairly common legalise for a small technology company, the plain spoken description of their policy in the blog seems fairly reasonable if not binding. Consult a lawyer, pay a lot of money, and you probably still wont be sure exactly how it applies.
