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So if I'm Burger King, it's illegal for me to eat a McDonalds hamburger to see why people like them?

• scrumper 9y ago
  No. However this situation is different: it's more like your Big Mac came with a license saying you weren't allowed to reverse engineer it (either by taking it apart and seeing what it was made of - 'reverse assembly' (per the article); or repeatedly comparing your burger to it in a series of taste tests - what this court called reverse engineering).
• jo909 9y ago
  No. It's illegal to make a contract with McDonald's where they serve you a burger only if you don't try to recreate the recipe and then you do it anyway. Well they claim you did anyway.
• natoliniak 9y ago
  Well, I suppose Mcdonald's doesn't make you sign a contract before you buy their food, although I wouldn't be surprised if soon there will be TOS printed on the receipts that make it illegal. But yes, that would mean that peeking in the kitchen to see how they prepare the food would somehow be an agreement violation...
• charbunny 9y ago
  I think that's a bit off. The key sticking point for me is that they didn't use the _prod_ software version, they used a specific _learning_ version. This is like getting someone from Burger King hired into McDonalds to get trained on how to make a burger for the sole purpose of bringing that knowledge back to Burger King.