1. What are the most important issues confronting Sheila Mason? Explain you priority of important issues. The most important issue confronting Sheila is that her previous company, ATS, is claiming she may be in violation of her Employee Noncompetition, Nonsolicitation, Nondisclosure and Development Agreement that she signed when she was hired by the company. The day after she quit she began officially working for her own company, which ATS indicates is in direct competition with its own business. Her agreement with her former employer indicates that she cannot be involved directly or indirectly with another company for a period of one year after leaving ATS that is in competition with ATS. Mason also has another issue with the …show more content…
This was a direct result of Shepherd disclosing information to his boss that revealed his invention. This is by far the most pressing issue for Shepherd because if he is unable to fully protect his invention from his employer, none of the remaining issues even matter. Nova does not develop any type of translation engine themselves, however they are in the business of rewriting applications to run on new systems. This demonstrates to Nova that Shepherd could have used knowledge gained while working at Nova to develop the translation engine. This also brings up the issue of the translation engine he developed being in direct competition with Nova's current business. Another issue confronting Shepherd is that the software he created, even though it was development during his own personal time using his own personal machine, it was created while he was currently an employee at Nova. Disclosing this information to his employer gives them enough justification to claim ownership of that software. As agreed by Shepherd when joining Nova, they claim all ownership of any ideas or software that Shepherd generates while he is an employee of the company. 3. What is your evaluation of the non-disclosure agreement (NDA)? Would you sign this as a venture capitalist? Why or why not? The non-disclosure agreement presented by Mason and Shepherd seeks to safe guard their idea, such
Technology and software development is an ever-growing industry. Copyright infringement can be very costly as well as a criminal offense (Lobel, 2015). First, having attorneys that specialize in any copyright laws is critical. The easiest way for H&R Block to avoid violating any copyright infringements is to simply obtain the author's permission, especially when contracting with any third-party vendors. If the company chooses to develop similar software used by other companies avoiding other software’s expressed ideas, facts, or another company’s expression verbatim will prevent copyright infringement (Bressler & Bressler, 2015).
1) Patty owned Patty’s Cakes in Jacksonville, Florida. She sold her business to Fruity’s, Inc. a national pastry company. There was a non-compete agreement in the contract for the sale of her business. In the non-compete, Patty agreed not to work in any capacity in the food industry for 10 years on the entire east coast. A court would likely determine that the non-compete agreement
Dr. Ava Morrow is a person worthy of being nominated and recognized for an HBCU Alumni Award in the category of education because her work as a microbiologist has afforded her the opportunity to train and encourage high school students and college students to be the next generation of STEM professionals. Her career as a faculty member began as a teaching assistant in the biology department at Gallaudet University and ended with the rank of Full Professor of Microbiology when she retired in 2013. She loved her work and was dedicated to students and the learning process. During her tenure at the university, she taught courses in Human Biology, General Microbiology, Pathogenic Microbiology, Physical Science, and Psychosocial and
Throughout reading the short story Sheila Mant, the boy must decide between Sheila and the bass. In the story the boy picks Sheila over the bass, and picks the bass over Sheila. First off, the boy picks the bass over Sheila many times. The first way the boy picks the bass over Sheila is he does not listen to what she is saying. The boy is trying to save the fish and does not want to lose it. In the short story it states, “While all this going on, Sheila has begun talking, and it was a few minutes before i was able to catch up with her train of thought” (Wetherell 3). The boy was more worried about the fish than he was with Sheila. The second way, the boy picks the bass is he knows so much about fish. The boy spends so much of his time fishing and learning about fish.
In this case we are introduced to Eve DuPlacie, an information technology professional working for Orange Company. Orange company is a huge corporation who produces wireless mobile device, and rivals her previous telecommunications employer Banana Company. Eve has found herself in an ethical dilemma of whether or not to provide her new employer with trade secrets that she is contractually obligated not to disclose by her previous employer. Her new employment contract with Orange obliges her to utilize all her skills and knowledge of the industry to help improve Orange’s products; however, her previous employment contract at Banana contained a clause requiring her not to disclose any of their commercial information for a year after her contract ended. She is obliged by her current employer to disclose the trade secrets, and obliged not to disclose them by her previous employer. Seeing as how there are no others in the case who would influence Eve’s decision, Eve is the only one morally responsible for deciding where her loyalties lie. While there are factors within the case from both perspectives that perhaps could influence her decision, Eve is still the only person responsible for her course of action.
“Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people”- Colin Powell. In a Good man is hard to find by Flannery O’Connor, the family embarks on a journey to Florida and along the way they meet a man named Red Sam. Red Sam as stated by a sign outside his restaurant is described as a “fat man with a happy laugh”. Though that description may be true, he does have different sides to him, which is shown through his interactions with the various people. The interactions that Red Sam has with The Grandmother, the “Two fellers” and his wife will show how The Grandmother and he both judge people based on their appearance, how gullible and naive he is when he helps out the Two fellers, and how he is the opposite of
Through her almost twenty years of service as manager, she has obtained many experiences that have shaped her into the manger she is today. She has come across many different forms of leadership. Some people
1) Given an asymmetric information problem, (1) how could a venture capital firm protect its equity investment from it? (2) Describe the problem.
“There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.” This was a famous quote that was said by Mary Mason Lyon. Mary Lyon has been, and is still to this day, a very important person in the history of women empowerment. Born on February 28, 1797 in Buckland, Massachusetts by Aaron and Jemima Lyon, Mary Lyon was not aware of the life that she was to have as she got older and what fame that would come. As Mary Mason Lyon began to get older, she attended school for a short while until she reached the age of 13. Soon after, at the age of just Seventeen, she got an offer to teach and had accepted. A while after she began teaching and educating other people, she then realised that she wanted to continue an education of her own causing her to go back to school and attend college at Sanderson Academy. As she grew in age good things and opportunities continued to come her way. Mary Mason Lyon soon because the creator and founder of the very first women's college.
Dracca became aware that one of its competitors, TrendBaby, Inc., was soliciting information from one of Dracca’s employees, Bob Shumaster. Shumaster was apparently detailing product assembly information that was unique to Dracca and explaining to TrendBaby how this assembly strategy saved Dracca thousands of dollars each month. Dracca discovered that TrendBaby actually hired Shumaster to provide this information, and that Shumaster was using Dracca company computers to relay the proprietary information to TrendBaby via email.
The purpose of this work is to identify strengths and weaknesses of the proposed ASU and whether the new proposed disclosure requirements do
The only way to right the wrong is rescission of the invention and confidentiality agreement. RoboticFX case is substantional enough it should not have to proceed to trail and in my opinion could be settled out of court.
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1. What are the key issues that Barbara Norris faces at the GSU? Why are they important to the organization?