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Investors most probably won't invest in your company at all if they know you probably will have significant IP trouble. Law suits are money-dumps, which is why
by dsplittgerber 17y ago
Investors most probably won't invest in your company at all if they know you probably will have significant IP trouble. Law suits are money-dumps, which is why the small guy never seems to win. They drop out earlier or stop from the beginning because they just don't have the funds. No investor will invest in you if e.g. 50% of his funds are going to be used for law suits.
Also, if your employer has IP over your idea/process/whatever, he will sue your next company as well.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoWouldn't the adversary need a patent first to own a process? Code can be re-written, and I'd argue that it absolutely should be in such a case. And obviously, using company resources for the side project is both idiotic and unethical. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the case where someone writes something entirely on his own time and gets sued because of a coves-all-hours contract that effectively placed him in indentured servitude (and that shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place).
- dirkstoop 17y agoIt's not so much about whether they're right or whether they'd be likely to win a lawsuit on merit, more about whether they're likely to sue.