Deep Dive Podcast - Between the Titans
About the Book
This is a story of a man who happened to inherit rights to a patent, and who then had to resort to all sorts of antics to avoid the pressure put on him by agents of two giant high-tech companies, who see his Intellectual Property as a valuable weapon to be used in their patent war…
Background
There was a legal dispute between Qualcomm (a company that makes chips for most phones), and Apple (the company that makes the most famous phones), that dominated the tech-industry headlines between 2017 and 2019. This case was very interesting to me, not only because I had worked at Qualcomm for 10 years, but because it was a fight between a supplier and a customer over Intellectual Property, and the question of how it should be paid for. I thought that this dispute could serve as an excellent setting for a story.
At the time when I started writing this book – my very first attempt at pure fiction – I was out of the high-tech industry for only a couple of years, and I was busily ruminating over my professional life, and how working in corporate teams tends to shape one’s ethic.
I thought that a story could be made up around a combination of those two trends – a legal dispute between two giant corporations, and the peer-group pressure that corporate teams exert on an individual. I added my love of a place where I used to spend summers when I was a kid, and the stories that the local people share, and threw in a desire to try and explain what a wonderful and complicated thing a mobile phone really is, and…
Details
Formats: Paperback and eBook
Date of Publication: June 2020
Publisher Fulton Books https://fultonbooks.com/
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