Legal Question in Business Law in California

Our company designed a new wireless temperature control utilizing Tridium software (Tridium is owned by Honeywell). The control will save billions in energy conservation(we have a patent pending). For the last 2 years Tridium has been working deligently on the software, it was to be completed this month. Honeywell realizes the new wireless temperature control is in direct competition for their productsand has now told Tridium to discontinue the development of the software. Typical example of the big guy squashing the little guy. We have invested almost a million dollars, and do not have money to fight. Can you please advise.


Asked on 9/08/11, 11:11 am

2 Answers from Attorneys

You need to have an attorney review the written agreement between your company and Tridium. Then your attorney needs to work with you to make sure that you cover yourself and perfect evidence that you have complied with all obligations under the agreement.

If Tridium actually refuses to comply with the agreement you need to have all evidence in order for filing lawsuit.

Let me know if you want to discuss this.

Caleb

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Answered on 9/08/11, 11:15 am
Bryan Whipple Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law

Did you have an actual agreement that required Honeywell to continue developing and marketing Tridium for your benefit? If so, Mr. Donner is right. More likely, though, I think you were depending upon the continued availability and evolution of Tridium without any promises that it would continue to be supported. In that case, you're pretty much stuck with whatever version of Tridium you now own or have under license. Perhaps your solution is to go out and find some venture capital and develop your own platform, or at least raise enough new capital to investigate and prosecute any claim you might have against Honeywell.

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Answered on 9/12/11, 10:05 am


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