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[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
I may be stupid, but to clarify, what does this mean? They get the design specs to produce our gyro at no cost, or they can contract us to produce it for them at no cost, or what?
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So your exact gyro is protected by copyright. That means nobody can produce a system that uses a exact, measure for measure identical copy. Your gyro is also protected by patent. That means for the duration of the patent, nobody can build a gyro that uses your specific technology as defined by your patent. What the exact wording of the deal means is that if Christie-Ford wants to build a gyro with that same tech and technical language, they don't need to pay the patent license fee.

BungieONI said:
I think it means we can't patent our Gyro design.
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Your design et all are already patented; this is just a specific cut out for C-F.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.

If they try to screw us with the patent then we can take them to court.
 
Christie-Ford's design philosophy is different enough from ours that while they're a competitor I don't think that they're a competitor in the same way as Renault is. They market to a different sort of niche than us, whereas Renault is likely gunning more for the traditional French archetype where we're settled, so I don't want to give up what edges we have over them. FCM is a hard no - cold hard cash is good in the immediate term but isn't going to carry us forward like technical upgrades will, and for all that their design failing so catastrophically was actually something of a fluke, people are still going to remember them as "those guys whose mecha went off like a bomb and maimed/killed a bunch of bystanders" at least for a while; I don't really want to give them leeway over the design process for future refits of our doomchicken and potentially get tarred with that brush by association.



...Fucking Yanks.

[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.

I've been blinded by their science.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
 
Christie Ford seems fair, and we don't have to deal with other French companies fucking us over. CF might screw us over in the long run, but I'm guessing we will be at war with the germans by the time that happens. They'll almost certainly leak the tech to other American companies but I don't really care about that.

[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.

Also when we fight the next war and france gets overrun we can go abuse the fact that at this point in time Americans sort of still liked the French and get a job in the American arms industry.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.

Makes the most sense, and we can get some of C-F suspension benefits for our next mech, and we get the current mech out the door and making money. The only real downside is they're American and not paying us to steal the design principles just the gyro design.
 
SoHowAreYou said:
Also when we fight the next war and france gets overrun we can go abuse the fact that at this point in time Americans sort of still liked the French and get a job in the American arms industry.
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And how would the Germans overrun us? With they hords of over engineered farming mecha? I bet they couldn't even make it to the Maginot Line!
 
GAWR said:
And how would the Germans overrun us? With they hords of over engineered farming mecha? I bet they couldn't even make it to the Maginot Line!
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Who knows surely the next war won't be against the Germans. Maybe the Italians will decide that they hate living. Or the Spanish will get revenge on France for... I would say the 30s year war but I don't think the Habsburgs are still around. No I was wrong to say the Germans would attack us, it will be the Swiss. Those damn neutrals.
 
GAWR said:
And how would the Germans overrun us? With they hords of over engineered farming mecha? I bet they couldn't even make it to the Maginot Line!
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..... I know you're not being serious but something came to mind when I was thinking about real life and that was the Fallschirmjäger which quickly spun into Para Mecha and how terrifying that would be. Might not be til after WW2 but still.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
Screw bribes, acquire Tech. And we want to stay cozy with the Yanks in case Hitler pulls out some ridiculous superweapon out of his behind.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.

With Christie-Ford we do have to buy the licenses for their systems, while they get ours for free, but that still not enough to get be to work with whatever monstrosity FCM makes next, or give up our secrets to Renault.
 
7th Hex said:
With Christie-Ford we do have to buy the licenses for their systems, while they get ours for free, but that still not enough to get be to work with whatever monstrosity FCM makes next, or give up our secrets to Renault.
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Their price for the licenses is the patent exemption. No money required.
 
SirLagginton said:
Their price for the licenses is the patent exemption. No money required.
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7734 said:
in exchange for permanent exemption from patent licensing on your gyrostabalization system, they'd sell you their improved articulator systems licenses- including their hip articulation scheme that had been so critical to their stellar field performances.
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I'm reading this as " if we give them the exemption, we unlock the ability to buy the license." Not that we would choose not to get access to it, but we'd still have to pay.
 
7th Hex said:
I'm reading this as " if we give them the exemption, we unlock the ability to buy the license." Not that we would choose not to get access to it, but we'd still have to pay.
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7th Hex said:
In addition, they were also discussing a tech trade: in exchange for permanent exemption from patent licensing on your gyrostabalization system, they'd sell you their improved articulator systems licenses- including their hip articulation scheme that had been so critical to their stellar field performances.
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Note the bolded.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.
 
[X] License with Christie-Ford. Pros: Tech transfer, and virgin production lines. Cons: Tech transfer, and Americans.

If the system they use doesn't need to be replaced till fucking 86, we need to get our hands on it.
 
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