> 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. Not even in the slightest. Property law is quite different from copyright/patent/trademark law. The only reason for classing trade secrets as intellectual property is that the same lawyers deal with them as with patents etc. Again, the term `intellectual property' has no meaning leagally, and is only used to make matters confusing into thinking that intangible objects like ideas can be "owned". You cannot own intangible objects. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
