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MG Taylor Corporation: Intellectual Property Notice
MG Taylor Corporation Intellectual Property Notice

Ownership of Materials
Except as otherwise noted, the information and/or software within this web site and the MG Taylor family of web sites ("Materials") are the exclusive property of the individuals and organizations as noted. All Materials are copyrighted and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. Except as noted, they may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, downloaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without written permission. Except as expressly provided herein, the owner of this intellectual property grants no express or implied rights to you under any patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, or trade secret information.

These materials are provided by MG Taylor Corporation as a service and may be used for informational purposes only. We make no representations about the suitability of these materials for any other purpose. Single copies may be downloaded and printed subject to the provisions below. By downloading or printing any materials from this site, you agree to these terms. If you disagree, do not use this family of sites or download any materials from it.

The web sites covered by the terms and conditions specified herein include the domains:

mgtaylor.com
knowhereinc.com
knowherestore.com
aiboulder.com
tsm-architecture.com
futureviews.org
thedesignshopcompany.com
knetweb.com
matttaylor.com
camelot-sail.com
knowherepress.com
whitewolfllc.com

MG Taylor Corporation owns the intellectual property (IP) in which most of the presently existing IP associated with the MG Taylor "Family of Organizations," System and Method resides. MG Taylor Corporation (MG Taylor) develops and markets certain expressions of this IP in the form of specific services and products including: DesignShops, NavCenters, CyberCon, PatchWorks Designs, WorkFurniture and, 7 Domains, Weak Signal and CHOICE Workshops. Athenaeum International (AI) and knOwhere, Inc. (knOwhere), are licensed by MG Taylor to provide a mix of products and services that stem from this IP.

MG Taylor has licensed (non-transferable) certain DesignShop℠ services to various clients for commercial application, as well as to a variety of client organization NavCenter™ environments for internal use. Other product/service licenses with various organizations are in progress.
This Intellectual Property is protected by a variety of means:

Patents
A Patent (6,292,830) related to six (6) subsystems of the System and Method was awarded to Matt and Gail Taylor in September 2001. This patent involves several levels of language and a process-architecture based on iteration, recursion and feedback of agents acting in an environment of agents. The patent involves a language that describes and operates the processes and is itself patented.

Trademarks
MG Taylor uses and licenses a collection of registered and common law trademarks and service marks in connection with its goods and services, and thereby gained ownership rights in those marks. Those trademarks and service marks (and their branded variants) include, but are not limited to:

ANDMAP
AUTHENTIC ARCHITECTURE
A FUTURE BY DESIGN ... NOT DEFAULT
APPROPRIATE RESPONSE
BEST CASE WORST CASE
BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISE
CREATING THE PROBLEM
CUBE OFFICE
CUBE WALL
CYBERCON
DESIGN-BUILD-USE
DESIGN FORMATION
DESIGNSHOP
DISCOVERY DAY
DOMICILE
ENTERPRISE OF ONE
FIVE E's OF EDUCATION
FOUNDATION SERIES
FOUNDATION SERIES II
FUTURE VIEWS
GROUP GENIUS
HUSKY
HYPERTILE
INTELLIGENT WORKPLACES AND DOMICILES
JOURNAL OF TRANSITION MANAGEMENT
KNETWEB
KNOWHERE
KNOWHERE STORE
KNOWLEDGEWALL
KNOWLEDGE WORKER INFORMATION BROKER
KREW
KWIB
MANAGEMENT CENTER
MATT TAYLOR
MEDIAPOD
MG TAYLOR
MGT
MGT EXECUTIVE SYSTEMS

NAVCENTER
NAVIGATION CENTER
NEXTGEN
OCTOPUS
OUTFITTING THE VIRTUAL WORKPLACE
PATCHWORKS DESIGN
POD
PODMAXIMUS
PODPOPULUS
POSTUSONIAN
RAPID DEPLOYMENT SOLUTION
RATE OF CHANGE
RDS
SAILDOG
SCAN-FOCUS-ACT
SEADOG
SEVEN DOMAINS
SEVEN STAGES OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS
SNOW FLAKE
SPONSOR SESSION
S'POZE
STAGES OF AN ENTERPRISE
TAKE-A-PANEL
TEN STEP KNOWLEDGE WORK PROCESS
THE FOUR STEP RECREATIVE PROCESS
THE INTELLIGENT WORKPLACE
THE LEARNING PATH: FIVE POINTS OF MASTERY
THREE CAT
TIME LAG
TRANSITION MANAGER
VALUE WEB
VANTAGE POINTS
WEAK SIGNAL RESEARCH
WORKFURNITURE
WORKPOD
WORKWALL
ZOOMTRAX

Additionally, the MG Taylor house mark is a registered trademark of MG Taylor Corporation and its subsidiaries, e.g., Athenaeum International:
MG Taylor House Mark Athenaeum International Environments Housemark

Copyrights
All of the Materials, except where specifically noted or attributed otherwise, are copyrighted by MG Taylor Corporation, 1980-2011, and all rights are reserved, except where noted and where use is granted under the conditions for use below. This includes, but is not limited to, all of the models included in the MG Taylor Strategic Modeling Language for the 21st Century. Namely, these are the 10-Step Knowledge Work Process Model, the 5 E's of Education Model, the 7 Domains Model, the Appropriate Response Model, the Best Case Worst Case Model, the Business of Enterprise Model, the Creating the Problem Model, the Design-Build-Use (Rapid Prototyping) Model, the Design Formation Model, the Four Step Recreative Process Model, the Learning Path: Levels of Mastery Model, the Scan-Focus-Act Model, the S'poze Model, the Three Cat Model, the Stages of an Enterprise Model, the Time Lag Model, and the Vantage Points Model. There is also the Authentic Architecture Model developed and used by Matt Taylor and tsmARCHITECTURE.

The MG Taylor Facilitation Manual, Volumes I and II are copyrighted, as well as the modules contained therein.

There is also a glyph font that is copyrighted by MG Taylor Corporation. These may be downloaded and used under the conditions for use listed below.

Furniture, environment and building designs, as well as the physical manifestations of those designs, developed by MG Taylor, Athenaeum International or tsmARCHITECTURE are protected by copyright.

Trade Dress
The look, sense, touch and feel - the Trade Dress - of Taylor environments, processes and subsystems are established in the “mind of the customer” and protected from “unfair competition.” MG Taylor, AI, and the knOwhere Stores have certain right of use of this Trade Dress. Various Licensee clients have right of use of the Trade Dress for the development and use of the DesignShop process in certain applications.

Trade Secret
All processes related to this IP and its use except where publicly disclosed is held in Trade Secret. This includes processes related to facilitation, design, fabrication, building, installing and the use related to physical environments, work processes, computer hardware and software systems, technical infrastructures, work augmentation tools, language means, mediums of networking and exchange, transportation of physical and virtual goods, operation of value webs and supply chains, etc.

A System and Method Manual is in progress that describes both Patent and Trade Secret materials. This Manual will be used as the basis for all licenses, capability transfer, education and training processes.

Persona
The Persona of Matt Taylor and CAMELOT, the sailing vessel, are established and protected. MG Taylor has certain right of use to this Persona by contract.

Policy for Use of Web Site Materials
All Materials of these web sites are protected by copyright. You can use the non-password protected contents by meeting four conditions:

  1. Notify MG Taylor Corporation via e-mail prior to usage.
  2. Maintain the integrity of the whole document, including the copyright notice, and properly attribute MG Taylor Corporation as the source and owner.
  3. If you use any of our trademark or service mark terms, include a notice attributing that trademark or service mark properly to MG Taylor Corporation.
  4. Share with us what you learned about this Material by using it.
  5. We reserve the right to use, copy, distribute, etc. any of the information provided under condition (4).

If you wish to include any of the non-password protected contents in any web document, you must meet these conditions:

  1. Notify MG Taylor Corporation via e-mail prior to usage.
  2. Maintain the integrity of the whole document, including the copyright notice, and properly attribute MG Taylor Corporation as the source and owner. Include a link to our site: http://www.mgtaylor.com
  3. If you use any of our trademark or service mark terms, include a notice attributing that trademark or service mark properly to MG Taylor Corporation.

Licensee organizations and members of our Endorsed Provider Program are free to use the materials according to the terms of their agreement with MG Taylor Corporation.

Fiduciary Responsibility
All members of the MG Taylor ValueWeb℠ community(employees of MG Taylor Corporation and its subsidiaries, Licensees, Endorsed Providers, and Contractors) must act as a fiduciary to other members of the community and to the MG Taylor ValueWeb system itself. Persons within the MG Taylor ValueWeb community are advised of their fiduciary obligations to the community. Briefly, these obligations include:

I. DUTY OF CARE -- that is an obligation to act prudently under the circumstances.

II. DUTY OF LOYALTY -- that is an obligation to act in the interests of ValueWeb. In other words, those within the community should not seek to obtain undue advantage from the experience.

III. DUTY OF CONFIDENCE -- that is a recognition that everything that you hear during an event is confidential. You may not pass this information on to others without express consent. Any documentation that you receive during an event should be treated confidentially as well.

Persons within the MG Taylor ValueWeb community are expected to understand and fulfill these obligations. If you have any questions concerning these obligations, please contact MG Taylor via e-mail.

Summary of IP Strategy
In total, our IP strategy is comprehensive and aggressive. The purpose is not to attempt an exclusive use over the present or some future section of the knowledge-economy - the purpose is to establish a way to steward a body of ideas into useful products and services while legally protecting the emerging ValueWeb community that invests in, develops and employs them, and uses them as customers.

Philosophically, we have a strong leaning toward “open source” development. In many realms that we work, however, there is question if the culture and operational traditions are in place (yet) for this to work in the short term. As IP protection is becoming a weapon in many organizational strategies, we intend to have it and then act differently in regards what we do with it. Open Source is well covered by Eric Raymond in “The Cathedral and the Bazaar."

It is the intention of MG Taylor Corporation and its subsidiaries to partner with each other and ValueWeb members and organizations to develop this IP into a number of products, services and organizations by a systematic process of Intellectual Capital creation. The primary strategy for doing this will be the employment of the system and method itself in the creation and facilitation of these enterprise opportunities, including Licensees and Endorsed Providers.

Each form of IP has its own set of rules. Rules by which IP is created and held. The notion of what can be protected has undergone a radical change in scope in the last few years. Persona and Trade Dress protection has become quite strong. Some IP is established by government franchise: patent, trademark, copyrights are examples. Other IP has to be established in the market place: Persona, Trade Dress are this way. These never exist by a certificate of “ownership” - they are established first in the minds of the public and, then, in the successful litigation of “unfair” competition. Trade Secret is assumed as long as an organization exercises diligence in protecting it.

IP shares some of the same characteristics under law with physical property. As an example, another person may not legally take your automobile, without your permission, and drive it. They are liable, under law, for stealing your property. In addition, if, in the course of driving your automobile, they drive it over a cliff, they are responsible for the damage to your automobile. If they hit another car, they are liable for both the damage to your automobile, and the damage they incur to others as well, in addition to the criminal liability of stealing your automobile in the first place.

What is across the board different about IP - from other kinds of law - is that ownership has the burden of protecting it. Ownership cannot be passive. Extreme diligence is required. IP is hard to get and easy to lose. For this reason, MG Taylor exercises a high level of diligence in protecting this IP. This is sometimes misunderstood. This is unfortunate, but it is how we must operate in the current reality. In the future, a new game will emerge and we intend to be part of it. In the mean time we also intend not to be excluded from the very work we have invented.

Many firms today process patents, register trademarks and the like, and think that they are exercising robust IP. This is rarely adequate in today’s environment. Few firms are up to date on the subject and fewer have a comprehensive IP strategy. Intellectual Property is likely to be one of the most competitive arenas of the 21st Century. One thing is sure, if you have it you can always give it up. If you do not have it you are unlikely to recover it in the future.

We use IP to ensure our brand and the quality of our products and services are not compromised, damaged or diluted. We owe this to those who have invested in the IP as Licensees and Endorsed Providers. It is also the means by which we receive legitimate return on our investment in its development, and are, therefore, able to continue to improve our products and services provided by us, our Licensees and Endorsed Providers. It also enables us, on the continued strength of our brand, to develop Intellectual Capital (Intellectual Property plus Market) to share with the entire ValueWeb community.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
The user of this site assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of this site and the Internet generally. The Materials are provided "as is," without any express or implied warranty of any kind including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of intellectual property, and freedom from errors, viruses, bugs, or other harmful components. In no event shall MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, or any individual therein, be liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of the use of or inability to use the Materials or any hyperlinked web site, even if MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, or any individual therein, has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, or any individual therein, be liable to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action exceeding the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing these sites.

Goods and services neither manufactured nor rendered by MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, or any individual therein, are the sole responsibility of the manufacturer or provider of those goods or services; MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, or any individual therein, also bear no responsibility for those goods or services. MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, or any individual therein, do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links and other items contained on this site nor on any of the MG Taylor family of sites. MG Taylor Corporation, its subsidiaries, and individuals therein reserve the right to make changes and updates to any information contained within this site without prior notice.

Applicable Laws
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