See the Facebook Twins case, they are arguing the very thing that Zuck stole Facebook from them (idea). I guess the difference is he did some work for them beforehand so ....
--- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Matt Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Stuart, that makes sense. The contracts didn't cover this stuff in > detail (a fact that should have raised some flags early on). > > A lot of things changed rather suddenly and I didn't have time to > investigate this as thoroughly as I would have liked. > > We have now reached an agreement that satisfies all parties. > > Cheers. > > > On Tuesday, 20 December 2011, Stuart Kinnear <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It really depends on the contract you signed up to, and whether that > contract was bound to you or extends to organisations that you work for. > For IP to work it really needs to be tied down to something that can be > defined well. I suggest investing in a few books from Amazon on the area to > get a grasp of the things that the legal eagles think of, go to a local > business advisory centre & take advantage of some free legal advice and > then, if it is something that that can be screwed down, then get a lawyer > versed in IP to scrutinise what you signed. > > Regards, Stuart > > > > On 20 December 2011 10:54, Matt Siebert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm not looking for anything legally binding, but just wondering what > is generally the case with regards to ideas and IP - are ideas considered > IP? or does there need to be some specific detail in order to be protected > by IP law? > >> For the last 18 months I've been working on a startup with a friend and > an investor. My friend has been an employee in the investor's company from > the start (and years before). Initially I was contracting my spare time to > the investor's company to do the proof of concept and later I commenced > employment with the investor's company in order to work on the new product. > >> There have been ups and downs and ultimately the startup has suffered > many losses due to decisions made by the investor against our advice. > Right now the sh*t is beginning to hit the fan and my friend and I have > had enough and are considering leaving and starting our own business in our > spare time. We have no intention to do anything legally or morally wrong. > We won't be working on the same product we've been working on under the > investor's company, but my friend had some ideas for future products that > we would like to use. These are just ideas with a 1 sentence description > and no real details. As such we're unsure where these fall with respect to > IP laws. > >> In the end, we're looking for ways forward that benefit all parties, > but are quite prepared to just walk away if such a solution cannot be > achieved. > >> Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I understand it's not > legally binding or anything. > >> Cheers. > > > > > > -- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Stuart Kinnear > > Mobile: 040 704 5686. Office: 03 9589 6502 > > > > SK Pro-Active! Pty Ltd > > acn. 81 072 778 262 > > PO Box 6117 Cromer, Vic 3193. Australia > > > > Business software developers. > > SQL Server, Visual Basic, C# , Asp.Net, Microsoft Office. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >
