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

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).