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by ffhhj 663 days ago
Companies already have patents, lots of them, why do they need non-competes to protect "their ideas"?
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hn_acker 662 days ago
Rather, companies already have non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), which allow companies to preserve all of the secrets that copyright and patents do not cover.
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umanwizard 663 days ago
The obvious answer is that most ideas are not patented.
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