Trade secret info

A trade secret is anything with commercial value, ideas included.

Trade secrets are protected by keeping the information secret. This is
accomplished usually by employment contract agreements, limiting access to the
information to specified individuals in an organization, and retaining control of the
information that is regarded as a trade secret.

As mentioned earlier, anything of commercial value that is independently
discovered or created is a trade secret. A good example of a well-kept trade
secret is the formula for Coca Cola® (Coca Cola is a registered trademark of the
Coca Cola Company).

The only protection one has is the threat of damages for misappropriation of
trade secrets. Trade secret law is based on State common law, State statutory
law (Uniform Trade Secret Act) or both.

If someone is able to reverse engineer your product or discovers it through his/her
own independent discovery, you will have no recourse.

Remember! Anything that can be easily reverse engineered should be patented.