No worries, I’m sure some company in China will buy all the I.P./patents that this company created from the economic stimulus grants inevitably paid by taxpayers at 10cents on the dollar -( [/quote]
FWIW –
Federally funded inventions always come with an automatic paid up non exclusive license to the U.S. government. There are limitations on licensing (must try to avoid exclusive licenses, assignment to a foreign national would be highly unusual, must try to keep manufacturing of invention in the U.S. etc.). Of course, all that applies only if you are playing by the rules . . .