A business secret is confidential knowledge or information that is capable of giving its holders a competitive advantage in the market.Protection of trade secrets in Brazil has historically not been associated with the notion of property since, technically speaking, unpatented information and...

Confidential information is protectable in Australia. There are different forms of confidential information recognized and different bases for protection. Providing the information has the necessary quality of confidentiality, it will be protectable irrespective of whether it is technical or...

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence technology is attracting increasing attention at the global level. From the legal point of view, legislators and researchers' most prominent concern revolves around how to provide adequate protection for the components of Artificial Intelligence to stimulate...

This article examines whether and to what extent the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) affects technology spillovers between focal firms (i.e., receivers of spillovers) and peers (i.e., senders of spillovers). I find that technology spillovers from peers located in states adopting the UTSA are...

This article examines whether and to what extent the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) affects technology spillovers between focal firms (i.e., receivers of spillovers) and peers (i.e., senders of spillovers). I find that technology spillovers from peers located in states adopting the UTSA are...

The paper is devoted to a comparison of trade secret law in the United States and the State of Israel from the perspective of the continental legal tradition. The aim of this paper is to describe the general system of trade secret law in the respect to the identification of items that fall under...

This Article examines public expectations of privacy in trade secret and the Fourth Amendment. Using an original, nationally representative survey of over a thousand respondents, we identify two privacy hierarchies. The first hierarchy is between domains: the public believes that surveillance...

The standardisation of trade secret protection was one of the goals of the TRIPs Agreement of 1998. Nevertheless, substantial differences in this protection remain across jurisdictions. When defining the optimal scope of trade secrets law, lawmakers should be aware that strong trade secret...

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...