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	Version one of the [[OneNDA]] uses the expression “public domain”.		Version one of the [[OneNDA]] uses the expression “public domain”.

	Experienced hands will not be surprised to hear this is a cue for those who take pleasure from such things, to raise a technical objection.		Experienced hands will not be surprised to hear this is a cue for those who take pleasure from such things, to raise a technical objection. This is too narrow! This means only information that is not protected by patent or copyright is excluded from the confidentiality obligation! Indeed, it makes no commercial sense at all: patent or copyright protection is only really meaningful where information ''is'' public: if it is not, it is hard too see how anyone can copy it.