How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?
I had the original idea, made the demo. My employer filed the patent, did NOT include my name as inventor and then made moves to fire me by giving me an impossibly tough project.
By achieving this tough project, I made another piece of IP for my firm.
My ex-firm is
1. Filing patents by reading emails of the engineers. 2. None of the engineers are aware that the firm is filing for IP. let alone inventorship or equity. 3. Firm is also making grounds for ex-employee litigation - i.e they will sue their employees if any of them starts a firm doing the same thing as them. 4. CEO is also making recordings of employees, taking legal admissions on WhatsApp and surreptitiously making old employees sign new employment contracts.
Having done them so much of a favour , now I am doing another favour to them by keeping quiet about the bullshit that I have detected as happening in the firm.
Most of the employees and engineers are long standing and have made large contributions.
I don't want any payout / equity - but I am pissed off enough to torpedo / oppose their patents which are not granted yet.
N.B: The CEO is related to me - :)