>John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a ZeniMax employee.
That's a scary precedent...
That's a scary precedent...
He sold that knowledge to Zenimax for $100m and was on the clock. Perhaps he shouldn't have sold id Software if he wanted to freely use the IP. I'm reminded of those MySQL folk who cashed out to Sun/Oracle but still wanted to exploit on on the IP afterwards.
IE This has been the law in every state forever.
Even the most liberal of states here, like california, find the same way, because they let employers claim things that "relate, at the time of conception or development, to the employers business, or the employers actual or demonstrable anticipated research or development".
Most engineers like to cut it off before the or, and like to believe their employer's business is very narrow.
Courts read both very broadly.