Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Internal Transparency

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ionela Andreicovici ◽  
Sara Bormann ◽  
Katharina Hombach
Author(s):  
Justine Pila ◽  
Paul L.C. Torremans

This chapter deals with the legal protection of trade secrets. Traditionally, trade secret protection was left to the national laws of Member States. These national regimes are rooted firmly in existing legal rules in the areas of unfair competition, tort, or breach of confidence. And there is also the “Directive on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use, and disclosure”. The Directive seeks to impose on Member States a minimal form of harmonization and uniformity. It does not impose a (Community) right in relation to a trade secret, but it works with a common basic definition of a trade secret, the principle that there needs to be redress for the unlawful acquisition, use, or disclosure of a trade secret, and a catalogue of measures and remedies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 445-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rembert Niebel ◽  
Lorenzo de Martinis ◽  
Birgit Clark

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Sartika Nanda Lestari ◽  
Sakhiyatu Sova ◽  
Rinitami Njatrijani

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