Yet Software AG had, incredibly, agreed to develop its own in a matter of months. Via "a series of lies," Software AG obtained what it needed, according to the complaint. For one, Bacon asked GlobeRanger for some product license keys, "ostensibly for support of existing Navy-GlobeRanger sites. The defendants used the license keys to circumvent security protections GlobeRanger had in place on its products, according to the complaint. They could now "peer at the Business Processes, see the solution's architecture and see how it was deployed at a specific site," it states.
Later, Bacon asked for GlobeRanger's data dictionary, "again ostensibly for support of GlobeRanger sites," it adds. The defendants used the purloined assets to begin testing "a Software AG Navy solution that included WebMethods middleware," the complaint alleges. GlobeRanger's "unnecessarily salacious petition," despite being "filled with sensational language Rhyne, Bacon and Gray did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.
Meanwhile, Software AG once found itself in somewhat of a reversal of the spy-movie-like scenario painted by GlobeRanger. Now with WebMethods in hand, it would be years before Software AG could develop a viable RFID product, leading the company to make a brazen move, according to the complaint.
It had to show returns on this investment," it states. GlobeRanger's complaint also names two systems integrators it had worked with, Main Sail and Naniq Systems, as defendants. A director at Naniq, Kim Gray, "was unusually successful" at winning contracts from the Navy's Automatic Identification Technology Office, according to the complaint, which said, "She was also having an improper relationship with Bob Bacon, the married head of Navy AIT. The company spent some months working up a proposal on the new architecture and gave it to Bacon as well as two contractors for the Navy, it adds.
Yet Software AG had, incredibly, agreed to develop its own in a matter of months. Via "a series of lies," Software AG obtained what it needed, according to the complaint. For one, Bacon asked GlobeRanger for some product license keys, "ostensibly for support of existing Navy-GlobeRanger sites. The defendants used the license keys to circumvent security protections GlobeRanger had in place on its products, according to the complaint.
They could now "peer at the Business Processes, see the solution's architecture and see how it was deployed at a specific site," it states. Defendants moved the suit to federal court and obtained a dismissal from the district court on the basis that all of plaintiff's claims were preempted by the Copyright Act, 28 U. The court held that the complete preemption doctrine applied in copyright preemption cases; plaintiff had pled factual allegations that at least in part fell outside of the scope of copyright; and defendants have argued enough of a basis for preemption on plaintiff's conversion claim to stay in federal court.
Accordingly, the court reversed and remanded. Software AG, et al. GlobeRanger Corp.
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