Tech execs fear legal reform in California could force them to forfeit their intellectual property.
When news first surfaced last year that Ford Explorers equipped with faulty Firestone tires had a deadly habit of rolling over, the technology industry was still zipping along like one of those gleaming sports cars that Silicon Valley firms used to hand out as perks. A rubbernecking tech CEO might have tsk-tsked at the travails of two old-economy stalwarts. Who could have imagined then that tech might get caught in a legal pileup of its own?
