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I don't buy for one second that anything not covered by trade secrets, patents, or nda ought to be protected. You bought the employees labor for a finite duration not the contents of their skull.

Intellectual property is a bit of a misnomer it has very little in common with property of the standard sort and the burden falls upon you to explain why we ought to create greater artificial scarcity for imaginary property.

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"I don't buy for one second that anything not covered by trade secrets, patents, or nda ought to be protected. You bought the employees labor for a finite duration not the contents of their skull."

+ My point is nearly everything that you learn at a company could be considered a 'trade secret' - depending on the company or project.

In the example I gave, I listed a variety of situations in which minute operational skills and knowledge, all contribute to be 'key information' regarding the development of the product, and can essentially be 'trade secrets'.

Ergo - it would be nary difficult to work for a competitor and not give that information up.

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