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mkchoi0801 07-19-2010 07:53 PM

Someone stole my idea, published on newspaper
 
Before everyone starts flaming, I'd like to state that I'm just wondering about possible outcomes.

So at the beginning of 2010, me and a couple friends had a presentation of a proposal as a part of Eng 112 class. The prof gave us a hypothetical million dollars and we had to propose an idea to make the world better with it. We proposed to change the recycling system of Metro Vancouver to volume based pricing, and suggested that we buy or build a new landfill to build a recycle centre.

The whole project was just for marks of course, but we recently found a news article of a group of students actually putting this idea in action. They're proposing the same volume based pricing system in the same location with a new landfill designed to collect waste.

Is there a way we can sue them saying they stole our idea from our in class presentation? LOL it sounds funny, but I wanna know if it's possible. We've had private google docs of our research, which was also presented on a website for a period of time, etc.

1exotic 07-19-2010 08:34 PM

http://images.cheezburger.com/comple...bb6520f1e5.gif

E-40six 07-19-2010 08:37 PM

Also, volume pricing won't work because the volume of garbage changes alot when its dumped because of how things not fitting together properly to fill the void spaces.

LUUUUUUUU 07-19-2010 08:37 PM

:facepalm:

Vansterdam 07-19-2010 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by 1exotic (Post 7035102)


:bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl: :bowrofl:

mkchoi0801 07-19-2010 08:47 PM

Ok, just needed an outside opinion as we were jokingly talking about it. You can proceed to posting unrelated gifs in attempts to be funny now...:s

johny 07-19-2010 08:47 PM

my answer would have been spend $1 million on bombs and destroy everything expect canada!... I wonder what grade i would have gotten.

CP.AR 07-19-2010 08:50 PM

Even if you went to court with the intellectual claim, it's impossible to prove that the idea is completely yours. Switching a recycling program to wholly "volume based" is borderline arbitrary, and can pretty much be dreamed up by a lot of people. So can pricing by mass, product, time of day etc...

Although the steps in the "implementation" of your idea is probably similar, it's not unlikely that it's completely coincidental - unless they have documents word for word that matches yours, it's pretty hard to prove it's a "copy" of your idea

But if you have the money, try it. Make sure to post results

mkchoi0801 07-19-2010 08:51 PM

probably zero since the prof had an absurd obsession towards third world countries in africa. she thought that teaching african kids how to play soccer would have made the world better than recycling or planting trees etc

tacobell 07-19-2010 08:52 PM

WTF? i gave my students hypothetical millions dollars as well, who's your teacher? i want to sue them too.

mkchoi0801 07-19-2010 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LUUUUUUUU (Post 7035109)
:facepalm:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Picard (Post 7035128)
Even if you went to court with the intellectual claim, it's impossible to prove that the idea is completely yours. Switching a recycling program to wholly "volume based" is borderline arbitrary, and can pretty much be dreamed up by a lot of people. So can pricing by mass, product, time of day etc...

I just thought it was funny that the guy came up with the exact same volume based pricing system in the same location in Metro Vancouver, referring to the success it had in Asia as we had done in our research, with the same proposal to buy an existing landfill to convert it to a recycle centre. I also thought that the fact that he was also from UBC was suspicious... lol :P

truong 07-19-2010 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by E-40six (Post 7035108)
Also, volume pricing won't work because the volume of garbage changes alot when its dumped because of how things not fitting together properly to fill the void spaces.

Spoken by a true garbage man

pawdregry4g 07-19-2010 09:19 PM

^lol

CP.AR 07-19-2010 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkchoi0801 (Post 7035137)
I just thought it was funny that the guy came up with the exact same volume based pricing system in the same location in Metro Vancouver, referring to the success it had in Asia as we had done in our research, with the same proposal to buy an existing landfill to convert it to a recycle centre. I also thought that the fact that he was also from UBC was suspicious... lol :P

You did not state that in your original post. In a court case you would have lost already. It's suspicious, but if you have all the evidence, go for it. Although you have to keep in mind that all work you do at UBC belongs to UBC the day you submit it.

tiger_handheld 07-19-2010 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mkchoi0801 (Post 7035137)
I just thought it was funny that the guy came up with the exact same volume based pricing system in the same location in Metro Vancouver, referring to the success it had in Asia as we had done in our research, with the same proposal to buy an existing landfill to convert it to a recycle centre. I also thought that the fact that he was also from UBC was suspicious... lol :P


so your idea isn't all that unique either. imagine the kid from asia sues u --

mr_chin 07-19-2010 09:59 PM

I believe if your ideas are not patent, then it is free for all to use it.

The_AK 07-19-2010 11:12 PM

Anyone watch Inception recently?

That ^

mmmk 07-19-2010 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aznlangjai (Post 7035243)
I believe if your ideas are not patent, then it is free for all to use it.

i believe this is how it works.

companies keep their research and ideas a secret until they obtain a patent

Ruff Ryd@s 07-19-2010 11:58 PM

does anyone remember this episode?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...esterEliza.png

Leparto 07-20-2010 12:04 AM

^gave me a good chuckle ^.^


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