LEADER 05458nam 22006735 450 001 9910731467903321 005 20240926120304.0 010 $a3-031-26786-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-26786-4 035 $a(PPN)272264792 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30591702 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30591702 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-26786-4 035 $a(CKB)26895841500041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926895841500041 100 $a20230610d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTrade Secrets Legal Protection $eFrom a Comparative Analysis of US and EU Law to a New Model of Understanding /$fby Luc Desaunettes-Barbero 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (505 pages) 225 1 $aMunich Studies on Innovation and Competition,$x2199-7470 ;$v19 311 08$aPrint version: Desaunettes-Barbero, Luc Trade Secrets Legal Protection Cham : Springer,c2023 9783031267857 327 $aPart I: Trade Secrets Legal Protection in the US and in the UE: AnAarea of Law in Search of Coherence -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Premise ? Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition: Two Regulatory Paradigms With Different Purposes and Apparatus -- Trade Secrets Subject Matter: A Broad and Blurred International Consensus -- Trade Secrets Legal Apprehension: An Uncertain Normative Framework -- Part II: Redefining Trade Secrets Law by Differentiating Between Two Different Legal Objects: The Secret Sphere and the Secret Pieces of Information -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Premise ? The Absence of Clear Theoretical Foundations -- The Legal Protection of Undertaking's Secret Sphere as a Necessity For The Functioning of the Market Economy -- The Legal Apprehension of Secret Pieces of Information as Immaterial Goods Regulation -- Conclusion ? The Distinction between the Secret Sphere and Secret Pieces of Information: The Need of a New Conceptual Model for Trade Secrets Law -- Part 3 - Conclusion -- General Conclusion -- Part 4 Summaries -- German Summary -- French Summary -- Bibliography. 330 $aDespite the economic relevance of trade secrets, their legal protection is not based on a robust theoretical corpus, and a large uncertainty remains regarding how they should be legally apprehended. The present book investigates the foundations of their legal protection by assessing its justifications and aims to define how this legal apprehension should be organized. The book starts with a comparative analysis of the US and the EU legal frameworks. It demonstrates the parentship existing between the two systems of protection and highlights that the incremental structuring of trade secrets protection has led to legal systems lacking broad-based conceptual foundations. In both legal orders, trade secrets rely on blurred protection, formally anchored in unfair competition, the strength of which, however, comes closer to that offered by intellectual property law. In this convoluted architecture, the judiciary is required to play a decisive role, especially at the enforcement stage. However, the absence of clarity concerning the telos of trade secrets protection leads to legal uncertainty, potentially incoherent enforcement, and, all in all, to inefficient outcomes from a welfare perspective. The book then explores a theoretical framework based on a distinction between two legal objects: the undertakings? secret sphere and secret pieces of information. Securing the undertakings? secret sphere appears as a condition for the competition process to happen in an economy working under structural uncertainty. It requires objective regulations enforced by public authorities. On the other hand, the legal apprehension of secret pieces of information should be considered as falling within the realm of immaterial goods regulation aiming to solve the deficit of marketability of this type of good. This might call ? after conducting a careful policy trade-off ? for the establishment of relative (i.e. inter partes) subjective rights. 410 0$aMunich Studies on Innovation and Competition,$x2199-7470 ;$v19 606 $aInformation technology$xLaw and legislation 606 $aMass media$xLaw and legislation 606 $aPrivate international law 606 $aConflict of laws 606 $aInternational law 606 $aComparative law 606 $aCommercial law 606 $aIT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property 606 $aPrivate International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law 606 $aBusiness Law 615 0$aInformation technology$xLaw and legislation. 615 0$aMass media$xLaw and legislation. 615 0$aPrivate international law. 615 0$aConflict of laws. 615 0$aInternational law. 615 0$aComparative law. 615 0$aCommercial law. 615 14$aIT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property. 615 24$aPrivate International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law. 615 24$aBusiness Law. 676 $a343.099 700 $aDesaunettes-Barbero$b Luc$01166478 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910731467903321 996 $aTrade Secrets Legal Protection$93395238 997 $aUNINA