Whether Reverse Engineering Amounts To Misappropriation Of Trade Secrets?

What is Reverse Engineering?

During WWII and the Cold War, reverse engineering was often used. It's often used by the military to clone other country's technology, gadgets, or information, or parts of them, that have been captured by regular troops in the field or through intelligence operations. Discrete geometry has grown in prominence in vehicle design, engineering, and quality assurance in recent years, thanks to improved computing capacity, more processing memory, and high-speed contact or non-contact scanning devices.

So Reverse engineering is the practice of creating a geometric computer-aided design (CAD) model from measurements taken from an actual physical model using a contact or non-contact scanning technique. Reverse engineering was born out of a need to replace missing or burned-out parts for which no technological documentation was available. This might happen if the part was shipped without drawings or if the drawings were misplaced or destroyed.