proper means

Trade secrets. Any method of discovering trade secrets that does not violate property-protection statutes or standards of commercial ethics.

• Proper means include independent invention, reverse engineering, observing the product in public, and studying published literature. Restatement (Second) of Torts § 757 cmt. f (1977).

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