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You're not allowed to use other people's trade secrets anyway Sure you are, you're just not allowed to reveal them. That is, once they're revealed [to outsider
by rhizome 9y ago
You're not allowed to use other people's trade secrets anyway
Sure you are, you're just not allowed to reveal them. That is, once they're revealed [to outsiders], they can be used by anybody. The only cause of action that I know of is to go after the revealer (as we have here), nobody who learns (and/or uses) anything from a disclosure of trade secrets has anything to worry about.
- rhino369 9y agoThat's not really true. If learn a trade secret you cannot use it. If it became public knowledge through no fault of your own, it's no longer a trade secret. Put if you steal the recipe to Coke and email it to Pepsi, they can't use it, even if use doesn't disclose it.
- dsfyu404ed 9y ago>If learn a trade secret you cannot use it. It depends on how you learn the a trade secret.
- rhizome 9y agoThe law in California is complicated, and appears to hold that a company is liable if they "knew or should have known" the information they were using was misappropriated. This came up a bunch back in the SCOX v. IBM days.