A big company I contacted about possible licensing of my product says they will NOT sign my non-disclosure agreement but say I must sign their submission documents. Must I?
It is not unusual for large companies to refuse to sign your non-disclosure agreement. They will not do so because they will be saying, in effect, that they have never seen your invention idea before. This may not be the case. Your idea may have already been submitted to them by another independent inventor, or their research and development department may be currently developing a product similar to yours or they may have developed such a product in the past. If they were to sign your NDA you could then claim that they had “stolen” your idea when in reality, they had not. As for the submission documents, you will almost certainly be required to fill those out and send to them before your appointment. They may go ahead and set the appointment, but you will have to have those documents back to them before submitting. These big companies are extremely concerned about independent inventors suing them and claiming that the manufacturer stole their invention. These documents are required by
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