But highly original trade secrets are the ones most valuable to the company. There would be little controversy about an over employee who discovered a novel way to design a vaccine, or a practical molecular scale computer. Here's a question for Mathematica users. Does your lisencing agreement give Wolfram any rights to or require royalty payments for any discoveries or inventions arising from your use of Mathematica? --- mcintosh@servidor.unam.mx wrote:
His work was sufficiently original that the agreement should have been redrafted, but apparently it wasn't. How can you hold an employee responsible for a "trade secret" when it was a highly original secret which the employee himself generated?
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