On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:58 +1200, Jinx wrote:
> > > 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 ? 

Welcome to the US civil law system, where whether or not you are
actually in the wrong, people with big enough pockets CAN penalize you
anyways, through your wallet...

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