Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that trade-secret liability requires knowledge of the trade secret and without knowledge, one cannot “use” a trade secret
• holding that CUTSA preempts any 17 claim based on “conduct falling within its terms”
• using a computer program provides no information as to how it was programmed, only what it does
• observing \source code for many if not most 8 commercial software products is a secret\
• Note, however, that while the way something is done is not a trade secret, some discrete fact concerning that way could conceivably be a trade secret.
• “Without the claimed theft of a 23 trade secret, the complaint would set forth no foundation for any of these claims.”

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