Comment Re:Who the hell wrote this title!? It's not *ideas (Score 1) 196
You can't own *ideas*, you can't treat *ideas* as IP, you can't copyright *ideas*, you can't patent *ideas*.
You can do the first two in your list, but not the last two. You can do those first two things via trade secret. Note that for the second thing, I am using the general concept of IP rather than any legal definition of it. More specifically, it is like: "I know something that you don't, na na!