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Kasz216 said:
It's called wikipedia bro.
"The disadvantage is that there is no protection once information protected as trade secret is uncovered by others through reverse engineering, for example, whereas patent has a guaranteed time of protection in exchange for disclosing the information to the public."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret#Definition
Again, follow the rabbit trail a bit further. I posted information before that you obviously missed or intentionally missed relating to specifically that. Your selective reading is funny however.
§ 1832. Theft of trade secrets
(a) Whoever, with intent to convert a trade secret, that is related to or included in a product that is produced for or placed in interstate or foreign commerce, to the economic benefit of anyone other than the owner thereof, and intending or knowing that the offense will, injure any owner of that trade secret, knowingly—
(1) steals, or without authorization appropriates, takes, carries away, or conceals, or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information;
(2) without authorization copies, duplicates, sketches, draws, photographs, downloads, uploads, alters, destroys, photocopies, replicates, transmits, delivers, sends, mails, communicates, or conveys such information;
(3) receives, buys, or possesses such information, knowing the same to have been stolen or appropriated, obtained, or converted without authorization;
(5) conspires with one or more other persons to commit any offense described in paragraphs (1) through (3), and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy,
shall, except as provided in subsection (b), be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
The Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) is a model law drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to better define rights and remedies of common law trade secret. It has been adopted by 46 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Texas have not adopted the UTSA
The act defines trade secret as information, including formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process that: (i) derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and(ii) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.
Trade secrets only deal with employees... and only when those employees sign Non-disclosure acts. No...They don't. In fact, no where in the legal definition will you find anything like that. You're pulling that out of your ass. It simply has to be something that isn't readily obtainable by the general public. (Which let's face it, this wasn't at all).
Though yeah... Companies sue people and get their way even when they're in the wrong ALL THE TIME. Again, Geohotz easily could have defended himself from this witch hunt (Especially with all the internet White Knights up in arms over it). Then again, there was some truth and dirt with the accusations that Sony levied and Geohot and his attorney knew it and took the easiest out they could. Sony gets rid of Geohot jailbreaking their systems publicly and Geohot doesn't have to continue playing a game of charades.
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Geohotz took a trade secret from Sony and that is why the case went the way it did.
