PUBPOL 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, General Foods, Pillsbury Company
16 Apr 2017
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Contract theories depend on criteria for payments to an idea submitter that have been agreed to by the submitter and the idea recipient, either explicitly or implicitly. Quantum merit theories depend on the degree of benefit obtained by the recipient of an idea and the unfairness of allowing the recipient to gain such benefit without compensating the idea submitter. Both claims are complicated by the uncertainty surrounding the nature and value of a submitted idea until it is received and evaluated by its recipient. John reeves" claims that in 1991 alyeska pipeline service company appropriated his idea for a visitor center at a popular turnout overlooking the trans-alaska pipeline. After receiving burke"s assurance that the tourism idea was between us, reeves orally disclosed his idea to build a visitor center at the turnout. He proposed that alyeska lease him the land and he build the center, sell alyeska merchandise, and display a pig and a cross-section of pipe.
