Legal Question in Business Law in India

Is there any ground of getting sued under this circumstance?
I was in a partnership and we together made a project which was his initial idea but I developed the plan and worked to make the software. However it was not started. Before that, our partnership dissolved because of some reasons. And the software was discarded, I did not hand it over to my partner.
I didn't hand him over the raw files of the project, but I said him (just as a friend) that in future he can take help of my email plan-charts (which I sent during our partnership) to start the project afresh if he wants. He said that this project will never be started again. I have a recording of the conversation too.
After a few months, the guy started another partnership with some other people and resumed the same project and copied exactly what I framed in my plan emails. He fell into a patent copyright infringement lawsuit due to this from another company.
Can he drag me into this lawsuit and can I be sued for this because of patent violation? Or am I legally safe?
I was not a part of the new partnership... Kindly advise

Asked on 3/19/15, 12:29 am

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20.03.2015

Dear Sir / Madam,

No, in the given circumstances, I do not foresee you being sued or getting dragged in any lawsuit for patent violation in any way whatsoever.

Regards,

Answered on 3/19/15, 8:03 pm

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