Re: FN-FORUM Interesting IP issue

date posted 30th December 2002 19:59

Surely the brand name etc would belong to the receivers and they can sell it
to cover the debts. I would enquire as to whether they are interested in
selling to you if it is that good, or given that you already have some
knowledge of it, try writing your own version in PHP.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Beale" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM Interesting IP issue


> Hi there
>
> I've a number of customers that came along with me when my previous
employer
> went into receivership a few months back.
>
> Now, some of those customers' websites run a product developed by my
> previous employer from 1997 onwards and I now want to improve and build
upon
> this product. It has a brand name and a .co.uk (which I'm about to attempt
> to transfer over to me) I'd be interested as to what you all think my
status
> is regarding using the brand name as if it were my own. All of my
customers
> recognise that name and it comes in at number 3 when I type the word into
> Google. I don't want to be dodgy or underhanded about this but the company
> has now been wound up all it's assets stripped off and the MD has left the
> UK.
>
> To put things into perspective some of my ex employers' other customers
> didn't come over with me and they were given *all* of the source code
> including the specific libraries needed to run their website with other
> hosting companies so I guess I'm OK using the code as a starting point (it
> really needs a re-write anyway as it was PHP3)
>
> What do you reckon?
>
> thanks
>
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