intellectual property

[buddyone]

While employed for a company, we purchased a "base" software package to run our business. This base package was modified using specs that were defined & designed by me. The company spent over $1.5 million on the customization of this base package. The software vendor is now marketing their "base" package with our full compliment of enhancements and has received a tentative PO from another company for this enhanced system. Do we have any recourse? Do trade secrets or my personal intellectual property apply?

 

[HomeGuru]

All work belongs to your employer.

 

[buddyone]

Not my employer

Home Guru...

It's not my employer that I am questioning, it's the software vendor. My employer bought the software, paid the software vendor for major modifications and now the software vendor has put the modifications into their "base package" and is marketing the system with the modifications included, calling it "their" system. I am wondering if my employer has recourse.