Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Downside of Trade Secrets

As a lawyer, I should be able to see both sides of this story from The Manchester Democrat Examiner, A trade secret no one wants but it is not so easy:
FairPoint Communications has presented a plan to address a long list of customer complaints. But pieces of that plan are being kept from the public because, according to the company, they are trade secrets.

Which begs the question:

Why would anyone want a trade secret from a company that, so far, has performed so poorly? It's not like they're doing so well that any of their practices would be copied anytime soon.
Spurious claims of trade secrets undermines legitimate business interests.

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