Re:Founder of Facebook's Oculus hit with lawsuit
by bhouston on Sunday May 24, 2015 @08:34PM
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This is a problematic situation for Luckey. It really depends on the contract he signed for TRT and what type of feedback he was getting. It appeared that he was technically under TRT contract during the time he developed the Kickstarter campaign - early 2012.
It is one thing to quit a position with a company and then create a competing product -- that happens all the time -- but it is a lot different to be contracted by a company to develop a product while at the same time clearly developing a competing product to the company you are contracting with -- getting the IP straight can be very problematic, and it does seem like a clear conflict of interest.
I would never recommend doing something like that.
It is one thing to quit a position with a company and then create a competing product -- that happens all the time -- but it is a lot different to be contracted by a company to develop a product while at the same time clearly developing a competing product to the company you are contracting with -- getting the IP straight can be very problematic, and it does seem like a clear conflict of interest.
I would never recommend doing something like that.