The law of confidential information and trade secrets has always had an obfuscated quality. This is unsurprising when one reflects on the innately and proverbially secretive nature of its subject-matter. Given this state of affairs, and the impossibility of providing a complete ‘list of matters which will qualify as trade secrets or their equivalents’, the administrative, technical and legal elements triggering and generating the status of confidence and trade secrecy have long been subjects of dispute. The digital era augmented these trends …
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Matt Malone, ‘Regulations contain new principles for the breach of confidence?’ (2021) 43(12) European Intellectual Property Review 759.
First posted 2022-01-12 11:00:50
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