hello I live in Michigan
There is a company that provides a service for my employer,i saw what it is and hes paying way to much for it, i know exactly how their company is doing what its doing, so practically i want to replicate one feature that they have, the feature is an email template that is sent out to customers that just has hyperlinks for yes or no answers, i want to do this for my employer for half the cost hes paying right now, hes interested but i want to make sure this is legal, of course i wont be copying the text, or design, i will only be rewording everything, with a different photo, the only thing that will be the same is the hyperlink function but even that will be only text and not a clickable photo like in the current emails. i want to sell this to him and some other businesses in this niche,but i read the contract they signed and it says my employer 'shall not permit a third party to modify,translate,transform,decompile,or reverse engineer any proprietary materials'. I read that for patents you can attempt to 'Claim that the idea is not novel and is an obvious step for anyone experienced in the particular field or Make a subtle change and claim that the changed product is not protected by patent' even though this is not patented, would this apply since its such a basic concept of emailing a satisfaction survey with hyperlinks, even though i am an employee of the person who signed the contract? is this illegal? if not any suggestions on a loophole? thanks for your help
There is a company that provides a service for my employer,i saw what it is and hes paying way to much for it, i know exactly how their company is doing what its doing, so practically i want to replicate one feature that they have, the feature is an email template that is sent out to customers that just has hyperlinks for yes or no answers, i want to do this for my employer for half the cost hes paying right now, hes interested but i want to make sure this is legal, of course i wont be copying the text, or design, i will only be rewording everything, with a different photo, the only thing that will be the same is the hyperlink function but even that will be only text and not a clickable photo like in the current emails. i want to sell this to him and some other businesses in this niche,but i read the contract they signed and it says my employer 'shall not permit a third party to modify,translate,transform,decompile,or reverse engineer any proprietary materials'. I read that for patents you can attempt to 'Claim that the idea is not novel and is an obvious step for anyone experienced in the particular field or Make a subtle change and claim that the changed product is not protected by patent' even though this is not patented, would this apply since its such a basic concept of emailing a satisfaction survey with hyperlinks, even though i am an employee of the person who signed the contract? is this illegal? if not any suggestions on a loophole? thanks for your help