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Re:Founder of Facebook's Oculus hit with lawsuit by Mikeb85 on Sunday May 24, 2015 @08:38PM (#9598135)
If he took actual materials, they may have a case. Otherwise, sounds baseless. You can't own someone's career experience.
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Re:Founder of Facebook's Oculus hit with lawsuit by bhouston on Sunday May 24, 2015 @08:42PM (#9598143)
A company can own someones inventions that were developed during the course of a contract or employment is the agreement is done in such a way to assign them. It isn't automatic, but it is a real thing and can lead to legal trouble:

http://www.marsdd.com/mars-library/intellectual-property-pro...

EDIT: Accord to the actual complaint Luckey signed a confidentiality + exclusivity agreement regarding the TRT stuff that has a term of five years: "On August 1, 2011, Luckey executed a written 'Nondisclosure, exclusivity and payments agreement' contract with Seidl on behalf of the Partnership. Two witnesses also executed the agreement on behalf of Luckey at Luckey’s direction: Tom Allan and Jeff Bacon."

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