Re:Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, ...
by gamblor956 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:09PM
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If their rival stole and use their logistics algo, that would probably be "use" of the trade secrets. It doesn't matter if the IP is good or bad, just that it was inappropriately acquired and then used by the defendant.
My point about the value of Tesla's logistics IP is that it doesn't make sense for anyone to use it because it's not valuable: Tesla has messed up on the basic logistics enough times that its clear they're not very good at logistics.
Re:Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, ...
by Klathmon on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:17PM
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>Tesla has messed up on the basic logistics enough times that its clear they're not very good at logistics.
All the mistakes in the world don't matter if the final outcome is a good one. Elon Musk has already been pretty public about some of the mistakes they made and what they learned from them, is it really inconceivable that they learned from those mistakes and are on their way toward a well working logistics system?
Clearly they aren't the best in the world with this stuff, but to say that they have nothing of value at all seems over the top.
Hypothetically, what if their supply chain issues are caused by dogmatically following a flawed and proprietary supply chain algorithm?
If their rival did indeed steal and use the algo, does it matter if it's flawed, for the purposes of a suit?
(Ex: maybe they decided it's easier to prove use of the flawed algo than some of the crown jewels for whatever reason)