Hi Ken - Thanks, please keep us post of the progress. You know law much better than I do, but it seems that these 2 cases, and add Siemens/Qtera are very different animals. Not sure about CA law, but if you look at the Supreme Court's rulings, they are so narrowly defined that it would take a leap of imagination to consider one is a precedent of the other.
Offhand, it appears that INTC case is more like Siemen, in which the individuals who freely left one company for another are under the microscope. However, in NT vs ONI case, there are demonstrable evidence, whereby NT proprietary processes, patentable or not, are being replicated upon the deflect of the individuals. I think there is also a part of proaching <g>. I really don't know how that works, however.
best, Bosco |
