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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by eliasmacpherson on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:04AM (#5625550)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire Surely work for hire applies?
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by claudius on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:08AM (#5625567)
Last time I checked, Norway was not really part of the US, so the law might actually be different…
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by eliasmacpherson on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:21AM (#5625619)
It's not just a US concept. Norway seems to have fairly strong protections on the expression of ideas - i.e. you can't copyright ideas in many cases. I wonder do they have special laws for trade secrets. Opera are going to have difficulty hiring people if they are suing former employees.
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by icebraining on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:37AM (#5625702)
Pretty sure you can't copyright ideas anywhere.
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by homosaur on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:08AM (#5626610)
Be sure to let the US Patent Office know about that.
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by whafro on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:38AM (#5626842)
The USPTO is likely well aware that they have nothing to do with copyright, just the Patents and Trademarks mentioned in their name.
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by hga on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:22AM (#5625630)
This is a trade secret case. If he genuinely had trade secrets (the bar for that is pretty high in the US), things like work for hire, non-competes (which are officially allowed in the US outside of California to prevent the "first bite of the apple" of trade secret disclosure), etc. are irrelevant.
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Re:Opera claims ex-employee took trade secrets to Mozilla, s... by eliasmacpherson on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:25AM (#5625645)
https://www.aippi.org/download/commitees/215/GR215norway.pdf

It seems it's a Norwegian case - they seem to have pretty strict laws for trade secrets laid out in the above pdf. The claim is given in Norwegian Krone.

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