If you’re an inventor or product developer with a great idea that you want to profit from, the idea of someone else stealing your idea can be sickening. It’s bad enough to think of someone else pocketing the money you expected to make on your invention, but can imagine also being denied the legal right to make and sell the very thing you invented, while someone else gets rich from it? It can – and does – happen. Very, very easily. One way it happens is when an inventor relies on a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to protect their idea from getting stolen when sharing it with another party. For example, you might have an idea for a mobile app, and you decide to outsource the software coding to an independent contractor. You have the coder sign an NDA, because you believe it will prevent the coder from stealing your idea. Unfortunately, a