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Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by rhino369 on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:11PM (#16343461)
That's not really true. If learn a trade secret you cannot use it. If it became public knowledge through no fault of your own, it's no longer a trade secret.

Put if you steal the recipe to Coke and email it to Pepsi, they can't use it, even if use doesn't disclose it.

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Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by rhizome on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:29PM (#16343977)
The law in California is complicated, and appears to hold that a company is liable if they "knew or should have known" the information they were using was misappropriated. This came up a bunch back in the SCOX v. IBM days.
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Re:Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement by dsfyu404ed on Friday February 09, 2018 @03:53PM (#16343738)
>If learn a trade secret you cannot use it.

It depends on how you learn the a trade secret.

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