Trade Secrets in UK Law
- Trade Secrets: The Spring‐Board Unsprung
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Trade secrets: the Enron crash has hit the headlines, but many other firms have been legally concealing the true state of their finances. Ted Stone advises wary investors to vote with their chequebooks.
...If you had told me a year ago that the earnings of a high-flyer would spark a major scandal, the odds are I would have picked a high-tech company such as Cisco Systems. Instead it's Enron. The company transformed itself from a provider of natural gas......
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Commercial satellite imagery: CI, KM, and trade secret law
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of remote surveillance or satellite imagery as they relate to trade secret law, knowledge management, and competitive intelligence.......... and remote sensing are increasingly more precise andubiquitous, the laws protecting businesses that have an interest in protecting trade secrets areinconsistent. On the one hand, the US Government has given itself a powerful tool to protect tradesecrets under the Economic Espionage Act. On the ......
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Intellectual property rights
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of intellectual property justifications and the basics of intellectual property law. Design/methodology/approach: The paper examines in........., discussingsuch areas as: copyright protection, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and common and currentmisconceptions.Findings – Overprotection ......
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International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks
A state’s decision to engage in cyber operations has important implications for its trade. Successful cyber espionage could yield valuable trade secrets that could boost domestic production and spu.........Successfulcyber espionage could yield valuable trade secrets that could boost domes tic production and spur economic growth. On the other hand, uncovered cyber operations could invite devastating sanctions that ......
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Whistleblowing: procedural and dogmatic problems in the implementation of directive (EU) 2019/1937
Purpose: This paper aims to enlighten the shortcomings of the EU Whistleblowing Directive 2019/1973, which could interfere negatively with its successful national implementation. In focus is the te..........The issue at the heart of thematter is balancing the protection of trade secrets with the fundamental necessity of whistleblowing as ameans of last ......
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Should the Law of Theft Extend to Information?
This article discusses whether the criminal offence of theft should extend to include information or should remain limited to corporeal property. It considers the inherent problems in satisfying th......... table is punished far moreseverely than the theft of the boardroom secrets’.1This article proceedson the basis that there is no offence of ‘theft ... did not include provisions which criminalisedthe misappropriation of trade secrets. Mr Alan Campbell QC wrote to The Times ayear previously on this ......
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Subject Index
...... OF CONFIDENCE, see also INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, TORT Trade secrets BRITISH ISLES AND COM- MONWEALTH LAW company law ......
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Disclosure rules in eu public procurement: Balancing between competition and transparency
The paper examines the disclosure of information within public contract awards under EU law. EU Public Procurement rules have several objectives that may at some times be conflicting with each othe......... procedure is necessary in order to fight corruption, enhance trade opportunities and ensure effective legal remedies. On the other hand, ... disclosure rules that ensure competitors’ access also to trade secrets of fellow tenderers. . 530 HALONEN BACKGROUND The rules on disclosure ......
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Protection of Intellectual Property—A Myth? A Consideration of Current Criminal Protection and Law Commission Proposals
......1 Intellectual property rights are defined by the World Trade Organisation as: . . . rights given to people over the creation of their ... the recommen- dations of the Law Commission, misuse of trade secrets, 11 that the UK has imposed criminal sanctions. This is manifestly not ......
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