That already happened. The company is called Venture Lighting: Venture CEO Wayne Hellman began the development of the company after a 16-year career with Gene

That already happened. The company is called Venture Lighting: Venture CEO Wayne Hellman began the development of the company after a 16-year career with General Electric, during which he pioneered innovations for metal halide lighting. Fifteen years of developing metal halide for GE convinced Mr. Hellman that a tremendous opportunity existed for a specialty metal halide lighting company. Mr. Hellman, along with a small core group of marketing and engineering managers from GE, formed Venture Lighting, literally beginning from scratch. http://www.venturelighting.com/About_V-History.html http://www.venturelighting.com/About_V-History.html I don't know what would be wrong with that. As long as you don't take any IP or equipment you can generally be free to do what you want.