Jh0wsef:
Why wasn't there a watermark?? Even if there wasn't a part payment..

xtremecr8:

Very intelligent question. We are their vendor and this is the tricky part of the treachery. When we finished, while we are still on the discussion of our Bill, Fbn through Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney requested us to produce small sample of about 100 ipad covers with the logo. We did to the best of our ability.
What we found strange until now is how Mrs Mumuney believe that the vendor job of supplying iPad covers we printed same logo we designed for them gives her and the bank a licence to use our intellectual property and then when we reminded them of our Bill, she refered us to legal. We have a reason to suspect it is a scheme from the onset to cheat us as a small brand.

xtremecr8:

Very intelligent question. We are their vendor and this is the tricky part of the treachery. When we finished, while we are still on the discussion of our Bill, Fbn through Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney requested us to produce small sample of about 100 ipad covers with the logo. We did to the best of our ability.
What we found strange until now is how Mrs Mumuney believe that the vendor job of supplying iPad covers we printed same logo we designed for them gives her and the bank a licence to use our intellectual property and then when we reminded them of our Bill, she refered us to legal. We have a reason to suspect it is a scheme from the onset to cheat us as a small brand.

drey22:
Just seeing this and i think you might want to talk more on this matter maybe not just in a public forum thoo, you can reach out to me with hopes of getting this misunderstanding(i think) sorted out.

AutoReportNG:


This is quite sad and painful, but I hope you are saying the truth here! Are you sure you have an agreement of contract, claim of ownership that this logo was done by you? FirstBank will want to protect its name and if there are some flops on your part, they may sue every penny out of you.

If you have any proof or claim to back this up, I will advice you store them in a cloud storage apart from your system, get it distrubted that you can have access to it.

As someone rightly said, try meet their legal team to know what they have to say, don't just assume yet, give them a fair hearing but it will be good to lawyer at this stage.

If all things fail, try to reach out to TheCable, SaharaReporters, ThePunch or Instablog9ja...

The main point is that, I hope you are saying the truth, hope in your contract there is nothing like this or breach of contract... If not, you have a.good case

Compliant:
@ op I don't think you are telling us the whole truth, because I see no reason why you dont want to goto legal dept and hear them out.

xtremecr8:

Please Come, let us reason togerher sir. We are going to use a familiar experience we all have, if your tailor sews you cloth, delivers it to you and you ask him to come back for you to confirm to him that the sewn cloth fits you, the tailor didn't hear from you but sees you wearing the cloth everywhere and when he comes to you to collect his fee, is it legal unit in ideal situation you refer the tailor who has served you diligently to?
Our trust was clearly broken because they had used and still using the same logo we designed. If they had held on and not used our design and if it wasn't clearly after we protested, we would go to their legal unit.
Sir, referring us to their legal unit was an afterthought because we protested against such an unfair situation and we have been threatened subtly even by people who consider our small size and resources if we think we are ready for 15 years case or have money for lawyers to do case for years against a big brand like FBN.
Sincerely,we are not ready.We just want to get paid for our Labour. Many people need to know this and learn from this our experience with FIRST Bank

kokomaster3d:


My friend you are not ready simple. It clearly shows you are not a professional. You dont bring sentiments into business.

I wonder why you are afraid of FBN. I am sorry but you are just wasting your time, because you dont have a case.

No sane human being or pro bono lawyer will enter this case.

SalamRushdie:
So this woman called Ani Mumuney hasnt stopped all this hanky panky behaviour , that's how she mad us waste resources in developing a third party business model for her department and after draining us intellectually and financially she took the finished model and handed it over to another firm and even gave the 500 thousand US dollars to implement the idea whereas my firm would have don the implementation for absolutely free whilst recovering our investments from sale of the solution to third parties but this woman and her cartel backstabbed us and handed my 100% original creation to another company where she obviously had interest ..But God being on my side they company failed to deliver and the project now moribound while I have made a ton of money deploying the solution with 3 other Banks who supported us and didn't back stab us ..

xtremecr8:
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You are right sir.
We know the option of the court is one of the options and not the ONLY option. Do you realise that you and I won't have this privilege to comment and get your views on this unfortunate situation if it is already in the courts? We are familiar with the Nigerian court system and know what we want is not court case, if they hadn't used our design, we would have quietly gone home, the problem is that they're using it without paying us and want to use their legal to explain the reason .
We believe there are still reasonable people in this land, must everything end up in the land?

AMvanquish:
@ OP, First Go and hear what their legal Dept has to say, sometimes it might be to Sign off on some document before you get paid. Some companies require approvals from their Legal Dept before finance do any payment esp when it involves 3rd Parties. Go and hear what they have to say 1st and If its nothing positive , you can escalate from there.

Compliant:
@ op I don't think you are telling us the whole truth, because I see no reason why you dont want to goto legal dept and hear them out.

kokomaster3d:


My friend you are not ready simple. It clearly shows you are not a professional. You dont bring sentiments into business.

I wonder why you are afraid of FBN. I am sorry but you are just wasting your time, because you dont have a case.

No sane human being or pro bono lawyer will enter this case.

1. No any formal document to show that FBN has engaged you to that effect.
2. You lack the necessary knowledge needed to run a successful business.
3. You are running your business based on sentiments and emotion - now see the result.

glowskillz:


Rightly said... I have gone through all his post and it all smelt of sentiments and deep emotions (understandably so)... But he has to put that aside if he really want to get this all sorted fast.

1. Stop screaming about how small you are, this is not really helping much, but only making this whole thing look pathetic.

2. What's with you and FBN losing and you winning... They have the financial capacity to lose and you don't, so I don't see what's you deal with them losing... This company don't give a sh*t about others losing, they won't even blink an eye when they want to collect your collateral for defaulting on loans, and you are saying you don't want them to lose, what's that.

3. The one and most important question everyone has been asking, to which you seem to not have answer to (which will determine if you have a good case or just left with begging them to pay) is, do you have a signed agreement or sign proposal or signed whatever?

Studio247:
People People like this are everywhere
One need to be careful when dealing with people
Some will take your job take your idea and still threaten you.
I have lost money to people I never expected will pay me back with evil.

Please use all your strength to fight them until you get what belongs to you.

I know how it hurts

kokomaster3d:


That is if he has signed a contract agreement with the bank, which I doubt. He will just put himself into more problem

AMvanquish:


But still , they should hear what they have to say or offer at the legal Dept. They are acting on speculation so far.

xtremecr8:

Very intelligent question. We are their vendor and this is the tricky part of the treachery. When we finished, while we are still on the discussion of our Bill, Fbn through Mrs Folake Ani-Mumuney requested us to produce small sample of about 100 ipad covers with the logo. We did to the best of our ability.
What we found strange until now is how Mrs Mumuney believe that the vendor job of supplying iPad covers we printed same logo we designed for them gives her and the bank a licence to use our intellectual property and then when we reminded them of our Bill, she refered us to legal. We have a reason to suspect it is a scheme from the onset to cheat us as a small brand.

ignitewatch:
First of all... Meet with their legal department to hear what they've to say.... Do that and revert back....... So it won't be you're just crying wolves when actually there's none.
***** meet the legal department first... Than if Na to stage protest and block their head office, me am solidly behind you. They can come and be killing small businesses anyhow