LifeinAsia - 8:00 pm on Feb 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm sure the guy's lawyers will try to argue that the idea was outside the scope of the work for which he was contracted, and therefore he didn't relinquish any right to the idea. And I'm sure that Google's lawyers will argue that once he put the idea on Google's *internal* discussion board, he did relinquish any rights to it.