Last week's question: A growing number of Millennial newlyweds are signing intellectual prenups, which ban couples from stealing each others ideas for software, apps, songs, novels and more should they ever divorce. Please come up with a new legal term to describe these distinctly unromantic agreements.
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THE WINNER: "Data mine-ing"
Joanne Sullivan, New York City
SECOND PLACE: "Statute of imitations"
Dick LaVine, New York City
THIRD PLACE: "Start-nups"
Diane Erickson, Prescott Valley, Ariz.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Brain distrust"
Bridget Dillon, Seattle
"Founders keepers"
Janine Witte, New Hope, Pa.
"App-idavit"
Emily Aborn, Temple, N.H.
"Unmeeting of the Minds"
Kathy El-Assal, Middleton, Wis.
"No-longer-sweethearts deal"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Pre-nope"
Traci Morena, Brookfield, Conn.
"To have and to hold on to"
John LaBorde, Loveland, Colo.
"Sign on the dot.com line"
Elizabeth Ferry Pekins, Lampasas, Texas
"No thought divorce"
Suzanne Brooks, Quechee, Vt.
"Imminent dough-main"
Donald Kogan, Boca Raton, Fla.
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