The Illogical Nature of The 2021 Summary Judgement for Teradata Versus SAP
… first, that contracts between the parties required Teradata to mark the alleged trade secrets as confidential, which Teradata did not do, and gave SAP ownership rights over modifications to SAP’s products resulting from the project. – Jones Day
That is quite a ridiculous statement. When two companies engage in a partnership, the company with IP does not have natural protection from that IP being copied by the other partner. This means that any partnership involving IP, which there often is, is simply a transfer of IP from one partner to the other.
However, I will also say that I disagreed …