[ExI] intellectual property again

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there some reason the gene and modified bacterium couldn't be trade
> secrets? Then all they have to do is not disclose the details of the
> gene or allow release of the bacterium.

### This won't help, since you can almost always easily
reverse-engineer the gene from the protein.

Rafal