Simulation files.
Experimental notes.
And correspondence with the academic advisers who helped me understand what aspects might be technically original.
Before joining Professor Lin's research program, I also worked with a patent attorney to review the invention's potential ownership and filing strategy.
The process was expensive.
I used savings.
A small grant.
And money I'd earned from university employment.
My attorney explained that inventorship and patent ownership were not automatically the same thing in every commercial arrangement, and that university research contracts could affect the rights in later work.
I listened carefully.
Then asked more questions than she probably expected.
We documented the work I'd completed independently before entering the Taiwan research program.
I filed an initial application through the appropriate process.
Then continued developing the technology with careful attention to university agreements, research contributions, and potential third-party rights.
Professor Lin supported that approach.
She didn't promise I would own everything simply because I had the original idea.
She insisted we establish the facts.
When later laboratory work involved additional contributions or shared resources, the relevant agreements were reviewed.
The university retained the rights properly associated with its own research contributions and negotiated appropriate permissions for certain testing and academic uses.
The underlying patent claims at issue in the Moonbridge transaction, however, belonged to the independently documented invention I had developed before the later collaboration.
That ownership was examined and recorded through the appropriate legal process.
It wasn't based on a secret handshake.
It wasn't something I invented after becoming angry at an investor.
It was reflected in formal documentation.
The Taiwanese patent records identified me as the rights holder.
Related applications in other jurisdictions had their own filing histories and statuses, which our attorneys tracked separately.