Rippling sues Runlayer over three patents after trade-secret accusation

The dueling cases grew out of a nearly yearlong product trial that ended without a contract and left both sides preparing competing MCP gateways.

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Primary source: TechCrunch

Why it matters

The dispute shows how an enterprise software trial can turn a prospective customer into a direct competitor, leaving contracts, source-code access and patents to determine who can ship.

A symbolic depiction of a legal dispute and intellectual property theft between a large and small entity, serving as a market warning. (Isotype infographic poster, with mid-century pictogram rows and flat statistical elegance.)

Parker Conrad (@parkerconrad)'s Rippling filed patent infringement claims against Andrew Berman (@berman66)'s Runlayer on August 10th, accusing the AI infrastructure developer of infringing three Rippling patents, according to TechCrunch, which reviewed the filing.…

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