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Seems fair to me as well. There's already postings dismissing any IP settlement as "unfair" here but that's fairly unrealistic in the real world. If IP can't be
by drzaiusapelord 10y ago
Seems fair to me as well. There's already postings dismissing any IP settlement as "unfair" here but that's fairly unrealistic in the real world. If IP can't be defended then that chills investor confidence. Why should I invest in company x if employees can leave with all the IP and go start company y?
Note this wasn't some submarine patent troll out of nowhere. This was a Zenimax employee working on another company's product on their time. This was also about NDA violations and a boatload of shady dealings by Facebook who famously bought Oculus over the weekend and left no time for a proper discovery of liabilities. There's little controversial about this. Carmack and Luckey were simply wrong and Oculus should have worked things out better with Zenimax. FB needs to do better due diligence. A lot of bad players were punished today. The VR industry is too young and fragile to have these shenanigans become the norm. Signaling to investors that VR IP is protected is a good for everyone.