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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (572705)	6/20/2010 1:56:08 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578231

I don't see any evidence that our country as a rule forced big companies to regularly share their trade secrets with smaller companies. I agree. The notion is antithetical to patent protection rights. BTW, there is a big difference between patents and trade secrets. A trade secret is secret sauce a company deliberately chooses to not patent precisely because a patent becomes a public record. 2nd BTW...the patent office is a broken mess. The office will patent trivial ideas and minor deviations to a fundamental patent, sometimes making it impossible to discern between the original invention and derivatives, creating a litigious environment in which a patent's only value rests in its ability to stand up to a court challenge. In this I do believe that small companies are at strong disadvantage...in patent litigation the richer of the two entities often bleeds its adversary, sometimes out of business... Al