From: "Roy Murphy" <murphy[_at_]panix.com>
> A claim is just a claim. Some claims are meritless. Do you have any
> statute or legal theory under which the claimed confidentiality imposes
> any actual obligations on the receiving party absent a preexisting
> agreement between them?
>
The point is (a) to give well-intentioned 3rd parties a chance to do something nice; (b) to try to show that any disclosure was inadvertent; (c) to show that the sender was at least sensitive to this issue.
Think CYA at a minimum.
Roland J. Cole, Executive Director
Software Patent Institute
11 South Meridian, #1313
INDIANAPOLIS IN 46204-3535
cole[_at_]spi.org; www.spi.org
317-231-7799; fax 317-231-7433
Received on Thu Aug 28 2003 - 19:00:43 GMT
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