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Trade non-secretsTrade non-secretsPosted Jan 23, 2007 0:16 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)In reply to: LCA: The state of the Nouveau project by emk Parent article: LCA: The state of the Nouveau project Back in college (a few decades ago), I actually took a course in copyright, patent, trade secret, &c. (And, boy, do they have roughly nothing in common.) The law said if you've been granted access to a trade secret under an NDA, you can be held accountable (like, sued), if you disclose said secret. The law, however, also recognized the impossibility of putting the toothpaste back in the tube—once the information is out, it isn't a secret, and can no longer be treated as such. (So why would anyone use secrecy instead of patent? Because there's no time limit. So long as you can keep it secret, even beyond the twenty years allotted to patents, it's yours alone. That's why Coca-Cola hasn't patented its recipe.)
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