From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gordon Gibby
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [VentilatorDevelopers] Liability protection

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So I've submitted 8 of or so you to the legal team at UF and I'm hopeful that you will end up filling out some sort of FORM to officially be recongized as a volunteer for UF.? That will allow you complete protection for what you do for them -- and if we are able to get the EUA submitted to the FDA,, we face about a 1-week period of back-and-forth to get the EUA approved (if we do).? ?What we are doing is INFINITELY more complicated than a simple device whose successful applicants have been coaching us (thaNK YOU!)? ??

I'm tryng to get that legal protection in overnight.? ?

Who knows if I will be successful?? ?

The goal here is to get at least an EUA approved -- and then other people? can point to that and use it for their applications for mmuch larger manufacturing efforts -- citing everything in that application to their benefit and avoiding them having to do all that work.? ?Some of you are experts and are in command of large companies and have your own liability protection -- and have already come up with better designs that will be EASIER to get through the FDA than what we little folks at UF have been able to do so far.? ? ? This should benefit you greeatly -- but we don't have a lot of time to waste.

The KNOWLEDGE BASE will be useful to others even though we likely will have to refuse to give any formal prermission for any use whatsoever to protect ourselves.? ?It is just a knowledge presentation.?

It turns out that the University of Florida has legal language on their CSSALT page? expressly for that purpose (

So knowledge can be made available to the rest of the world through THAT page I believe and that may insulate you in some way from private suits against you, by someone in some other nation where a company has benefited from the knowledge dispersed on the UF page.

Gordon