Repairing Holzworth Instrumentation Equipment - Claim of IP Rights Violation

[helius]

Trade secrets could also be considered IP. In this case the IP holder would need to take reasonable steps to keep the information secret. Putting such a notice on the outside may help to satisfy that requirement and protect their IP.

No, it won't. Trade secrets laws only create a cause of action if the information was acquired through improper means. Reverse engineering is explicitly defined as a proper means: improper means are spying, bribery, etc.

[wraper]

Intellectual property are rights someone holds to the the design (or parts of it) of an item (i.e. in the form of patents), as well as the copyright for things like software code.

Trade secrets could also be considered IP. In this case the IP holder would need to take reasonable steps to keep the information secret. Putting such a notice on the outside may help to satisfy that requirement and protect their IP.

It is not a trade secret. Writing some nonsense on the label does not make internals a trade secret.