Jinx wrote:
> I signed an NDA and did some work for a client. The client has
> backed out of the project, and I feel I'd like to have a go at
> marketing it myself. The client says I can't do that because I've
> signed an NDA. Normally I'd go along with that except -
>
> - the product is not novel and can be found in other markets, eg
> quite easily with Google. Hardly a secret. Anyone else who had
> not signed an NDA would therefore be quite at liberty to make
> these
>
> - I'd already independently invented and built one for myself 10
> years ago (but never went ahead and commercialised it), so I'm
> not ignorant of its existence. Neither are all the people who knew
> about mine before this client came along
>
> The NDA was the usual thing ; don't disclose to 3rd parties etc,
> nothing special
>
> What do you think ? Leg to stand on ?
I would say as long as you don't use any proprietary knowledge gained 
from your client, and go about this as finishing and marketing the 
product you started ten years ago, you will be fine.

But IANAL.

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