CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts

Re:CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts by viraptor on Friday December 11, 2009 @07:09AM (#989558)

Point 7 is... interesting. Like the whole post really. It lists a lot of facts about TC helping in CP development, working out some details, assuring commercial support. But that's pretty much it. They have some emails, but that's still not really formal.

I may be mistaken of course, but it looks like they do not have any formal document that says anything about their ownership of the project. Sure - they helped out the project, or even produced the blueprints, but do they have a proper contract saying what do they get in exchange? Afaik there's no law stopping me from creating a device based on someone else's not patented blueprints (otherwise people writing RFCs would own a lot of software they didn't write).

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Re:CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional Thoughts by Retric on Friday December 11, 2009 @07:52AM (#989596)

I think the problem is TC may have provided resources such as office space. At which point verbal contracts can become binding, which is why emails back and forth which support the verbal contract would be important. So, the real question becomes did TC provide such services and can they prove what the verbal contract was?

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