Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Prolusion: What Is Intellectual Property (And Why Should You Care About It Anyway?) – A Layperson’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law
- Introduction: Intellectual Property Social Justice Theory: History, Development, and Description
- Part I IP Social Justice Foundations
- Part II IP Social Justice in Major Intellectual Property Domains
- 4 People Are the Lifeblood of Innovation
- 5 Copyright and the Interdependent Relationship Between Social Utility and Social Justice
- 6 Trademarks, Legal Remedies, and Social Injustices
- 7 Trade Secrets from an Intellectual Property Social Justice Perspective
- 8 Tattoo Use: What Does the Right of Publicity Have to Do With Social Justice?
- Part III IP Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
- Part IV IP Social Justice in the Political Economy: Engaging Activism; Achieving Change
- Part V IP Social Justice in the Information Age
- Part VI Intellectual Property Social Justice in Global Perspective: Issues in Gender and Development Disparity
- Part VII IP Social Justice: The Future of the Global IP Ecosystem
7 - Trade Secrets from an Intellectual Property Social Justice Perspective
from Part II - IP Social Justice in Major Intellectual Property Domains
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- The Cambridge Handbook of Intellectual Property and Social Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Foreword
- Prolusion: What Is Intellectual Property (And Why Should You Care About It Anyway?) – A Layperson’s Guide to Intellectual Property Law
- Introduction: Intellectual Property Social Justice Theory: History, Development, and Description
- Part I IP Social Justice Foundations
- Part II IP Social Justice in Major Intellectual Property Domains
- 4 People Are the Lifeblood of Innovation
- 5 Copyright and the Interdependent Relationship Between Social Utility and Social Justice
- 6 Trademarks, Legal Remedies, and Social Injustices
- 7 Trade Secrets from an Intellectual Property Social Justice Perspective
- 8 Tattoo Use: What Does the Right of Publicity Have to Do With Social Justice?
- Part III IP Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
- Part IV IP Social Justice in the Political Economy: Engaging Activism; Achieving Change
- Part V IP Social Justice in the Information Age
- Part VI Intellectual Property Social Justice in Global Perspective: Issues in Gender and Development Disparity
- Part VII IP Social Justice: The Future of the Global IP Ecosystem
Summary
A trade secret is any economically valuable information which provides an actual or potential competitive advantage to the owner of the information because the information is secret.1 Trade secret protection can be an important driver of innovation, inclusion, and empowerment. But legal protection for trade secrets can also undermine those interests if the protection granted is not properly balanced by other interests such as employee mobility and the ability to build on existing information. A distinguishing feature of trade secret IP is that the essential bargain which underlies utilitarian innovation as embodied in patent law – the grant of a monopoly to exploit the patent for a limited time in exchange for making the information public2 – is not present.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024