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This has been the valley formula for at least 20 years now. First company I worked for wrote Palm software. Palm starts a conversation with us--allegedly on h
by jstewartmobile 9y ago
This has been the valley formula for at least 20 years now.
First company I worked for wrote Palm software. Palm starts a conversation with us--allegedly on how they could improve their OS for developers--and starts asking fairly specific questions about our product.
Three months later they come out with a copy of it.
Worse still, before that happened Intellisync sued us for patent infringement on our own algorithm. The boss didn't bother to patent it figuring that it had prior-art all over it. That didn't stop the USPTO from issuing Intellisync a patent though. Our attorney was sure we could win, IF we felt like investing a few years and a few $M into the legal battle.