video game console, because you can open this up and look at it. you can t always do that with coat and software. exactly right. so first engineering has been an exception to trade secret law, so if that is the case here, and you notice from the statements, there is no comment one way or the other whether threads his use reverse engineering, i doubt that would come for and say that, but if they had, then that could be a defense to misappropriation of trade secrets. but then you would still have to contend with the contract issues, if, and i say big if, an employee who had, if they had that kind of noncompete or trade secrets language and their contract, if they go somewhere else and then bring that over with him, when they weren t allowed to, you may have a contract claim there. but there are many different layers of potential legal protection here. but then many avenues floor threads to be able to develop something through something like reverse engineering. don t worry, elaine, i w
can open this up and look at it. you can t always do that with coat and software. exactly right. so first engineering has been an exception to trade secret law, so if that is the case here, and you notice from the statements, there is no comment one way or the other whether threads his use reverse engineering, i doubt that would come for and say that, but if they had, then that could be a defense to misappropriation of trade secrets. but then you would still have to contend with the contract issues, if, and i say big if, an employee who had, if they had that kind of noncompete or trade secrets language and their contract, if they go somewhere else and then bring that over with him, when they weren t allowed to, you may have a contract claim there. but there are many different layers of potential legal protection here. but then many avenues floor threads to be able to develop something through something like reverse engineering. don t worry, elaine, i won t ask you about the legal vie
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Podcast series on future of non-compete and trade secrets law. Inevitable disclosure doctrine, expected to be widely used to protect trade secrets after 1995 PepsiCo, Inc. v. Redmond has not been as commonly employed as anticipated. Is legal landscape about to change?
confined to one state or the other. so if we want to see the important impacts, and they are important, we estimate that wages could increase by $300 billion if nonkcompete clauses were banned. if we the to see those impacts for workers, we have to ban them. this is a complicated aspect, but i have to get it in. intellectual property rights. isn t that a justification for maintaining nonkcompete agreements? we don t want the you to take our information. that is a justification we hear from employers. employers have other options. 9 7% of workers subject to a noncompete are subject to a nondisclosure agreement or other protections that employers can have to protect their confidential information. there s also trade secret law. all of these alternatives don t have the set skreer consequences for workers. as i said, i never knew.