Rui Miguel writes:
> Well, but they work completely different from copyright,
> name-calling-Alexander...

> And from patents... which work in almost exactly the opposite form of
> trade secrets.

Patents, copyrights, and to a lesser extent trademarks are all
transferrable "rights against the world" and thus have enough of the
characteristics of property to be treated as a form of property by the law.
The only reason for classing trade secrets as intellectual property is that
the same lawyers deal with them as with patents etc.
-- 
John Hasler 
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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