Thanks for the tips everyone. Looks like I'll be expending more energy figuring out the legalities & such then I will with the actual engineering task. Sigh.
Initial impression is that it would be a fairly small job, maybe ~100 hours spread over a few months. I would be willing to take some risk on reduced up-front payment for a cut of future earnings (if they are willing to offer that option), but really have no idea how I would phrase that in a...
An individual has approached me with a concept that they would like to mature, and have some backing from an investor. He is looking for help from an engineer (i.e, me) to help develop the concept into a viable prototype that could be field tested and patented. Should I choose to pursue it...
