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"principle" I believe is the applicable word here....<br>
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Scot L. Harris wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:04, Mike McCarty wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:03 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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<pre wrap="">After the engineers complained that there would be a massive
editing effort to modify *comments*, the lawyers of Company A
and Company B got together, studied the law, and concluded
that, to comply with the law, Company A must perforce modify
all documents, including non-disclosed proprietary trade
secret source, even in comments, so that the now trademarked
term did not appear anywhere.
The engineers gritted their teeth, and did a massive search
and edit to modify the source.
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This sounds like you had really bad lawyers (shades of gray I know) that
acceded to the request of the other company. Probably as a quick way to
just settle the complaint. In other words it would have cost more to
defend against the complaint than it cost to give in. :)
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