The Royal Statistical Society offered assistance and nominated two professors of statistics to help design a decent algorithm. But the professors withdrew when asked to sign a non disclosure agreement which would have constrained them for five years.
He says that Apple did not develop the idea independently, but stole it from him.
I do not know much about the case, but I find it strange that an inventor should write an article like this without explaining what it was he invented.
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Exam regulator rejected expert help
The Royal Statistical Society offered assistance and nominated two professors of statistics to help design a decent algorithm. But the professors withdrew when asked to sign a non disclosure agreement which would have constrained them for five years.
"We get the point of non-disclosure agreements: you don't want someone offering a running commentary while decisions are being made," said Sharon Witherspoon of the Royal Statistical Society , "But constraining independent academic experts from saying, 'Well, looking at the data, I saw it was clear this would have this effect,' didn't fit our principles of transparency."
https://news.sky.com/story/a-levels-exam-regulator-ignored-expert-help-after-statisticians-wouldnt-sign-non-disclosure-agreements-12049289
Patrick Racz blogs for the Huffington Post:
Patrick Racz from Smartflash just wrote a blog for the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/patrick-racz/this-inventor-is-no-patent-troll_b_7494076.html
He says that Apple did not develop the idea independently, but stole it from him.
I do not know much about the case, but I find it strange that an inventor should write an article like this without explaining what it was he invented.