> > AFAIK (in my country) an NDA can not prevent that you use
> > any knowledge that you already had and/or can get elsewhere.
> 
> Before or after you get sued and spend the equivalent of the cost
> of two cars in court to prove it ? I don't know how things work in
> Holland, sorry.

But Peter, as you said (IIRC), you have to sign an NDA to find
out what it's all about. Now, what if, as in my case, the product
was no big secret after all (ie not novel, perhaps not well-known
but not hard to find either) and you had prior knowledge and could
also even show some prior art ? Surely you can't or shouldn't be
penalised for what you already know ? It's actually the person who
got you to sign the NDA that is late to the party ? Admitedly they
had the foresight to have an NDA and an NDA does carry some
weight of course. I'd be pretty disappointed if someone I had sign
one tried to work around it, so I'm not advocating that

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