Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp., 184 Cal.App.4th 210 (April 29, 2010)
In a recent case, Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp., 184 Cal.App.4th 210 (April 29, 2010), the California Court of Appeal clarified what constitutes use of a trade secret in the software context. At issue in Silvaco was whether defendant, Intel, was liable for trade secret misappropriation based on its use of software it had purchased from a third party, that was derived from plaintiff's trade secret source code, which in turn, had been misappropriated by a third party.
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