People, Ideas & Objects is instituting a Whistleblower Program to terminate any unauthorized use of our Intellectual Property in the oil & gas industry. We believe there has been a serious attempt to circumvent our Intellectual Property in a material way over the past six years. Our efforts to document these are limited by access to the evidence we need. Our Whistleblower Program is designed to provide us with the evidence to proceed with our Retroactive and Compensatory License for these indiscretions. There will be three aspects to these licenses.
At no time will Whistleblowers be known to anyone. I am aware of the methods used by producers to ostracize and vilify individuals who offend them. That is why we are implementing a level of absolute anonymity.
Licenses provide no further provisions for producers to use any future Intellectual Property. They must cease and desist.
Any compensation earned in the Retroactive and Compensatory License will be shared 50 / 50 between the Whistleblower and People, Ideas & Objects.
What we are seeking is documentation of the evidence needed to prove our case. Video, audio, screen shots, software documentation, process management, emails, job descriptions or interviews with individuals. To name just a few methods. Please redact any identifying information submitted to People, Ideas & Objects.
Here is the process we’ve established to participate in our Whistleblower Program.
Time to document and develop can be lengthy and difficult. Therefore we ask that you register your intent to document in an email to paul.cox@piobiz.com at the very beginning.
Please do not use your name or your current email address. Use gmail (establishes a collaborative environment with People, Ideas & Objects.) to set up a new email address with an unidentifiable name such as xyz@gmail.com. This way People, Ideas & Objects will not know who the Whistleblower is.
In the initial email describe the Intellectual Property that you seek to document and for which company. It will be in this way we can grant the exclusive right to be the Whistleblower for that process at that company. Confirmation of this grant will be emailed back to you.
Producers will make it clear that participation in this Whistleblower Program will be grounds for termination. Much is at stake and the need for anonymity.
Video is taken from a hidden camera that doesn’t reveal anyone but the subject of concern and is from an unidentifiable perspective.
Video and audio are edited to not reveal anything about the other participants. Please ensure there are other participants in audio and video recordings to maintain anonymity.
If I don’t know who you are, then no one will know who you are.
In the initial email please comment in your own words. “You are not acting as an officer, director, agent or employee of the producer firm for the purposes of seeking to circumvent the discovery process of any violation of People, Ideas & Objects Intellectual Property. That you are an individual with the requisite access to the described process and are acting on a good faith basis to document what company X’s inappropriate behavior is.” Etc. Please attest to your employment at the firm you’re documenting.
I will confirm your registration which grants you the exclusive right to proceed. That no one else has or will be authorized to do so. Providing you the time and opportunity to conduct the documentation thoroughly and effectively.
People, Ideas & Objects and yourself are therefore free to conduct a collaborative effort in terms of reviewing the process and producer firm.
To commit People, Ideas & Objects to the Whistleblower Program. Commit this blog page (not your emails) to the Wayback Machine, under your account. (Anonymity precludes a formal legal agreement between yourself and People, Ideas & Objects. The Wayback Machine and email reflect the offer and acceptance, etc.) Information regarding the Whistleblower Program can be aggregated on this blog by selecting the Whistleblower tag on the bottom left of the blog.
For further information please contact me at paul.cox@piobiz.com