Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: Cold fusion replication has no legal standing and is totally subjective in > the mind of the observer. >
That makes no difference at all. As I said, you can be sued for stealing a trade secret consisting of marketing plans and advertising jingles, or a movie script. Those are totally subjective and the value of them (if any) cannot be estimated. As long as a company says it is secret, and you steal it, you are guilty. Depending on your method of stealing it, you can face civil or criminal charges. Employees steal advertising plans and other nebulous things like that all the time. They are seldom actually sued. Bankers in the run-up to 2008 were filing lawsuits against employees who quit and set up complicated investment instruments, also known as Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction. The details were trade secrets. Employee contracts typically prevented them from working in banking for 2 years after they left the employ of the bank. - Jed
