Suppose Kent Kauffman has the world's best, all-natural, organic chocolate pudding recipe, which has a secret ingredient in it. Kent makes tons of money selling this chocolate pudding in Whole Foods Markets (for the snobs) and Krogers (for those who want to be snobs and tell people they bought the pudding at Whole Foods) and Walmarts (for those who just don't care). You have figured out my recipe and now and put it in your book of top-secret recipes. This is: delicious gross because pudding is so overrated not in violation of intellectual property law a copyright infringement