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When I was an employee at Salesforce.com, their legal department claimed my pre-existing AppExchange app potentially conflicted with their future product roadma
by matchagaucho 10y ago
When I was an employee at Salesforce.com, their legal department claimed my pre-existing AppExchange app potentially conflicted with their future product roadmap and asked me to relinquish ownership of the app within 90 days.
My Lawyer advised me that a "fire sale" of the assets would make Salesforce liable for the difference in devaluation. So I stood my ground and kept the IP.
Claiming prior art as competitive is a different stance than claiming ownership, but it ultimately resulted in terminating the relationship.
The irony was that I drank the Salesforce start-up Kool-Aid and developed the IP on their platform prior to joining.