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- Aug 24, 2008
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Anyway, my biggest question is this... doesn't Gavin get absolutely nothing out of this? Obviously, they didn't issue the ruling in this episode, but even in the judge comes down on Richard, it shouldn't matter at all. At least from what I can surmise, Pied Piper was a completely different program when he was working at Hooli. The whole middle-out thing happened after the infamous Dick Stroking Discussion in episode 10 of season 1. So, if Gavin is given the IP rights, he gets the rights to the algorithm that Richard was working on at that point, which he (or rather his employees) already stole in season 1.
I would assume if they own the original algorithm the case could be without it the improved version would not had existed thus pied piper wouldn't be able to use it while gavin can use the version they showed at the contest and while it's not as good as the other it was the best at that time for compression.
Or because one led to the other it could be viewed that gavin owns both but in either way who really cares?
All I care about is we need confirmation on if the egg is dead or not!