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.......remind me again how the courts in Texas work? "In 2004 a court in Texas ordered a former Alcatel employee to give his former employer a software algorit
by yoamro 12y ago
.......remind me again how the courts in Texas work?
"In 2004 a court in Texas ordered a former Alcatel employee to give his former employer a software algorithm — which existed entirely in his mind. The idea, which he was still working on and was still too abstract and incomplete to be a patentable invention, was nevertheless deemed the property of Alcatel, forcing the ex-employee to turn over the algorithm in the months after he was fired."
- karmajunkie 12y agoMostly, they don't. Judges in Texas are generally elected, and so you get all the same kinds of electoral corruption that you have anytime a politician raises campaign funds.
- ewoodrich 12y agoMost states have local judicial elections of some sort. Texas has partisan judicial elections, and your point very much stands.
- ArkyBeagle 12y agoThat's the infamous Evan Brown case, right? Ah, good ole DSC....