Legal Opinion
Behr Venture Partners v. Bedford Computer Corp. (In Re Bedford Computer Corp.)
United States Bankruptcy Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided June 30, 1986No. 16-10101PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. YACOS, Bankruptcy Judge.
This adversary proceeding raises the question as to who owns the “technology” of the Chapter 11 debtor corporations— more particularly when it was acquired by the owner — and finally and most importantly just what “it” is.
During a trial spanning two weeks on this matter the court was forced to “pass through the viewing screen” into a totally alien world of computer engineering and business terminology in which the conventional and comfortable concepts of “tangibles” and “intangibles” no longer have much meaning. Having “interfaced” for some…
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