Get another lawyer. The owner of a trade secret has to be able to prove that s/he took appropriate steps to protect its confidentiality, in order to enforce his rights. First challenge would be defending keeping an unencrypted "secret" on an unprotected (from viruses) machine.
The recipient, however, has done nothing wrong - if not a party to any confidentiality agreement, s/he has no obligation to protect the "secret" - tho the ethical thing would be to notify the infected sender.
There's a class action lawsuit called Cherry Schofield vs. State of Arizona which recently settled the oncall-pager dispute involving police. Result? people on pager call get about $1 per hour and overtime if actually called out.
A photo of a nude 17-year old is not child pornography in the U.S. To qualify as child pornography, the image must depict a person clearly identifiable as a minor engaged in sexual conduct, or displayed in a clearly sexual pose.
Otherwise, all parents would be in trouble for the baby-in-the-bath pics.
We took the CueCat and a sampling of posts to the Intellectual Property Section of the Arizona State Bar, and when we read the "retroactive loan" EULA and Slashdot posts, raucous laughter ensued... they especially enjoyed the post on the toothbrush EULA.
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Get another lawyer. The owner of a trade secret has to be able to prove that s/he took appropriate steps to protect its confidentiality, in order to enforce his rights. First challenge would be defending keeping an unencrypted "secret" on an unprotected (from viruses) machine. The recipient, however, has done nothing wrong - if not a party to any confidentiality agreement, s/he has no obligation to protect the "secret" - tho the ethical thing would be to notify the infected sender.
There's a class action lawsuit called Cherry Schofield vs. State of Arizona which recently settled the oncall-pager dispute involving police. Result? people on pager call get about $1 per hour and overtime if actually called out.
A photo of a nude 17-year old is not child pornography in the U.S. To qualify as child pornography, the image must depict a person clearly identifiable as a minor engaged in sexual conduct, or displayed in a clearly sexual pose. Otherwise, all parents would be in trouble for the baby-in-the-bath pics.
We took the CueCat and a sampling of posts to the Intellectual Property Section of the Arizona State Bar, and when we read the "retroactive loan" EULA and Slashdot posts, raucous laughter ensued... they especially enjoyed the post on the toothbrush EULA.