Hi,
I need a legal advise on the following case:
I sold a 5 year development software for a £1, in return the company will offer me a "software development manager/architecture" job to be responsible to deploy the softwrare live, and that exactly what I did. Always, my understanding that incase of a redundancy or the software did not successed, I will have the right to buy it back for a £1.
The software went live 5 months after I started and is used by 5 major customers.
Two years later, they decided that I have been paid too much of £47K and they want to drop my salary by £10K. To that, they are making my post redundant, I was told that I am not entitled to buy the software because I signed the contract which has a small paragraph saying that this option is only open in the first 12 months, I was not aware of this.
The sofwtare gave the company a 5 years head start, also the software played a major component in securing a grant worth £400,000 from WDA (Welsh Development Agency).
The company by no means poor, they have plenty money in the bank and not in debit.
Can anybody help in this case, or I just have to accept the fact that I lost the rights to my software, and they are only the ones who are going to benfit fro it.
Is it illegal to publish this case on the internet and name and shame the company publicly for taking advanatge of my full trust and robbing me ?
Please write to me or send an email to: eliasn@kyokushin.co.uk
Looking forware to hearing from you.
Nofal Elias
I need a legal advise on the following case:
I sold a 5 year development software for a £1, in return the company will offer me a "software development manager/architecture" job to be responsible to deploy the softwrare live, and that exactly what I did. Always, my understanding that incase of a redundancy or the software did not successed, I will have the right to buy it back for a £1.
The software went live 5 months after I started and is used by 5 major customers.
Two years later, they decided that I have been paid too much of £47K and they want to drop my salary by £10K. To that, they are making my post redundant, I was told that I am not entitled to buy the software because I signed the contract which has a small paragraph saying that this option is only open in the first 12 months, I was not aware of this.
The sofwtare gave the company a 5 years head start, also the software played a major component in securing a grant worth £400,000 from WDA (Welsh Development Agency).
The company by no means poor, they have plenty money in the bank and not in debit.
Can anybody help in this case, or I just have to accept the fact that I lost the rights to my software, and they are only the ones who are going to benfit fro it.
Is it illegal to publish this case on the internet and name and shame the company publicly for taking advanatge of my full trust and robbing me ?
Please write to me or send an email to: eliasn@kyokushin.co.uk
Looking forware to hearing from you.
Nofal Elias