Vodacom Please Call Me battle to continue: report
Nkosana Makate, the man who claims that he came up with the idea for the successful Please Call Me service, vows he will take his court battle to the Constitutional Court if he has to.
This is according to a report in the Sunday Times, in which Makate said that the recent dismissal of his case against Vodacom “paved the way to the Supreme Court”.
The High Court dismissed the civil case against Vodacom with costs on 1 July 2014.
According to Makate, however, the ruling judge in the case at least recognised that a contract existed between the parties.
Makate wanted as much as R6.75 billion from Vodacom for inventing the Please Call Me service.
According to Makate, his boss at the time, Philip Geissler, promised – in an oral agreement – to facilitate remuneration negotiations with the company.
Vodacom argued that the rights to anything developed or produced by its employees belong to the company. Makete disputes this, arguing the idea fell outside of his normal duties at Vodacom.
Vodacom also said that Geissler did not have the right to promise Makete anything on behalf of Vodacom.
Makate’s legal representatives told The Sunday Times that they would not settle for a cent less than R650-million in damages from Vodacom.
Makate had originally asked for 15% of the money that Vodacom would make.
“We will be exercising all our options,” the firm said.
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