"The Court finds that New Century had access to the SQL Data [pg. 536] Structures and that there is enough probative similarity to find that New Century factually copied the SQL Data Structures."
The next question might be to have 'Positive Software' demonstrate that they did not, in fact, take their table schemas from some place else. Like... textbooks? Or... example database schemas from vendors. Or tutorial sites? Or competing products?
There may be something extremely unique about part of their structure, perhaps, but... at the same time, there's often very little variety in how most similar data (crm/sales/lead gen/etc) might be stored to be remotely usable for reportin anyway.
"misappropriation of confidential information". Without seeing the structures in question it may be hard to say, but typically 'confidential info' is qualified with "not elsewhere available"-style clauses.
"... Likewise, the Court finds that there are more than one or a few ways to organize the data structures required for programs such as LoanTrack and LoanForce..."
Yeah, but usually there's only one good way to do stuff. Yes I could just have one row with 940 columns - technically, I could make my program work with that - but it's extremely suboptimal - regardless of whether I've seen anyone else's table structures or not.
"The Court finds that New Century had access to the SQL Data [pg. 536] Structures and that there is enough probative similarity to find that New Century factually copied the SQL Data Structures."
The next question might be to have 'Positive Software' demonstrate that they did not, in fact, take their table schemas from some place else. Like... textbooks? Or... example database schemas from vendors. Or tutorial sites? Or competing products?
There may be something extremely unique about part of their structure, perhaps, but... at the same time, there's often very little variety in how most similar data (crm/sales/lead gen/etc) might be stored to be remotely usable for reportin anyway.
"misappropriation of confidential information". Without seeing the structures in question it may be hard to say, but typically 'confidential info' is qualified with "not elsewhere available"-style clauses.
"... Likewise, the Court finds that there are more than one or a few ways to organize the data structures required for programs such as LoanTrack and LoanForce..."
Yeah, but usually there's only one good way to do stuff. Yes I could just have one row with 940 columns - technically, I could make my program work with that - but it's extremely suboptimal - regardless of whether I've seen anyone else's table structures or not.