What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NY
I was asked by my ex employer to develop a demo website for one of their customers. To speed up the development of the demo in addition that we didn't have much time, I pulled out one of my old applications I have developed for one of my projects 2 years ago, and where much of its functions are being used by another application of my current customers such as Treeview navigation, users and groups and tabs navigation modules. It was in good faith and just to help them out speed up the demo and have something very quickly otherwise I would have never done that but just created some static screenshots.
So I took (copy/pasted) that application, created a new photoshop template with new icons and all the stuff and made some minor modifications to fit the whole thing fit with the ex employer demo requirements. The ex employer was impressed with how speedy the "development" of the demo was going into thinking that it was from scratch even if I was trying to make it clear that it wasn't the case.
Now after I got abusively fired by the ex employer for a reason that isn't relevant to be discussed here, he, as I'm sure you could guess, asked for the demo code. I provided them with the photoshop (psd layers file), the icons and other graphics and a complied (Java class files) version of the demo and told them that that what belongs to them.
The case of the firing will be soon heard in court in the coming months and I'm sure they will try to bring out the demo litigation even it is not related to the case in an attempt to try to discredit me.
My question is how should I deal with this in court before people who would have little if any computer and software knowledge since obviously I don't want to hand out the source code that I was working on for years before being hired by the ex employer?
I was asked by my ex employer to develop a demo website for one of their customers. To speed up the development of the demo in addition that we didn't have much time, I pulled out one of my old applications I have developed for one of my projects 2 years ago, and where much of its functions are being used by another application of my current customers such as Treeview navigation, users and groups and tabs navigation modules. It was in good faith and just to help them out speed up the demo and have something very quickly otherwise I would have never done that but just created some static screenshots.
So I took (copy/pasted) that application, created a new photoshop template with new icons and all the stuff and made some minor modifications to fit the whole thing fit with the ex employer demo requirements. The ex employer was impressed with how speedy the "development" of the demo was going into thinking that it was from scratch even if I was trying to make it clear that it wasn't the case.
Now after I got abusively fired by the ex employer for a reason that isn't relevant to be discussed here, he, as I'm sure you could guess, asked for the demo code. I provided them with the photoshop (psd layers file), the icons and other graphics and a complied (Java class files) version of the demo and told them that that what belongs to them.
The case of the firing will be soon heard in court in the coming months and I'm sure they will try to bring out the demo litigation even it is not related to the case in an attempt to try to discredit me.
My question is how should I deal with this in court before people who would have little if any computer and software knowledge since obviously I don't want to hand out the source code that I was working on for years before being hired by the ex employer?