On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:04, Mike McCarty wrote: > Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:03 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > 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. 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. :)