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Software Buyers Not Liable For Trade Secrets In Compiled Source Code

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By: Mike Masnick Silvaco Data Systems lost its argument that Intel and others could be found liable for violating Silvaco's trade secrets, because those companies purchased software from another company who had violated Silvaco's trade secrets. The quick background is that another company -- Circuit Semantics Inc., (CSI) -- has apparently used trade secrets from Silvaco in creating its software. Silvaco won its lawsuit against Circuit Semantics, barring further sale of its code. Silvaco then sued buyers of CSI's code, including Intel, claiming that they, via CSI, had also violated Silvaco's trade secrets. To continue reading this interesting article from Tech Dirt, please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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