Teepin is a most useful knowledge tool for any company, namely those that, either by self determination or by mere pressure of the market and activities they dwell in, take the stance of pushing the envelope when investing a part of their resources in gathering, examining, assessing and eventually implementing the ideas they find most original and creative from their employees.
Company management wise, this software is quite handy and useful as it is recognized by its users, however, many of them don’t realize some of the legal issues that may arise on some cases.
To start with, one should bear in mind that Teepin materializes a manner of documenting authorship of any idea that’s set for debate within a company, or whoever was the first to assume “in public” that idea as their own, thus “taking the burden” of championing it in face of the scrutiny of all their peers and those high and low within the company’s hierarchy.
The same goes for documenting the opinions that, along the process of debating, employees and managers will submit to the issue at hand.
Far from being a setback, such act of documenting that this application provides, might reveal itself as a factor of enlightenment as what really went on, when any given idea or challenge was being debated.
This instance can prove to be vital when the company is to award merit (or demerit) for a determined idea or solution, or any outside circumstances, like Courts of law or any other public authority, if there’s the need for it.
On top of all this, it should be stressed that, Teepin has all the potential to speed up innovation within a company or an activity, which will lead to, at times, the need for legal authorship protection against illegitimate use or appropriation by a third party, namely copyright and industrial ownership rights, which must be declared at the rightful legal entities, for which purpose all Teepin documentation is neither sufficient nor appropriate.
About the Author
Nuno B. M. Lumbrales is a lawyer and a client for another web-based tool by the same team behind Teepin: LawRD – Reports on Demand, a tool for law firms practice management.