Let us extend this line of logic a bit more.
If a partner of one joint venture was engaged with another company while still in that partnership to produce a device that is similar in function to the product that was the commercialized object of the original partnership, is that side activity to replicate the function of that original product with cooperation of the other company an attempt to steal the intellectual property of the original partnership. Is the aggrieved partner of the original partnership justified in breaking the original partnership if they become aware of the outside activities of the other partner in violation of the original partnership? For a partner in a partnership, who is trying to duplicate the functionality of a product with another party the act of stealing intellectual property? IMHO, this is similar to unfaithfulness in a marriage. Is divorce based on unfaithfulness justified? On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really? In Italy, he was granted. Only there. An it is extremely unlikely >> that he will get anywhere . . . >> > > His ability to make the machine work is intellectual property whether he > has a patent or not. It is a trade secret. Stealing a trade secret is > unethical if not illegal. Xanthoulis was bragging in the press that he > steals trade secrets from his business partners. You would be crazy to sign > a contract with someone who says that. > > Rossi may file for another patent, and he may get it. So he still has > intellectual property in that sense as well. > > - Jed > >
