| Autore |
Desaunettes-Barbero Luc
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cham : , : Springer, , 2023
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (505 pages)
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| Collana |
Munich Studies on Innovation and Competition Series
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| ISBN |
3-031-26786-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: General Introduction -- Part I: Trade Secrets Legal Protection in the US and in the EU: An Area of Law in Search of Coherence -- Chapter 2: Introduction to Part I: The Shared and Shaky Foundations of Trade Secrets Legal Protection in the US and the EU -- Chapter 3: Premise-Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition: Two Regulatory Paradigms with Different Purposes and Apparatus -- 3.1 Intellectual Property Rights as Legislation Allowing the Emergence of Markets by Converting Specific Information into Trad... -- 3.1.1 The Public Good Nature of Information and the Need for Legal Excludability to Allow the Emergence of Markets -- 3.1.2 The Technical Apparatus of Market Opening Legislation -- 3.1.2.1 Subjective Exclusive Rights in Rem -- 3.1.2.2 The Need for Material and Temporal Limitations -- 3.2 Unfair Competition Regulations as Legislation Addressing Imperfect Information Issue -- 3.2.1 The Logic of Imperfect Information Solving Regulation -- 3.2.2 The Technical Apparatus of Unfair Competition: The Prohibition of Delineated Market Behaviours -- 3.3 Conclusion on the Distinction Between Unfair Competition and Intellectual Property Right -- Chapter 4: Trade Secrets Subject Matter: A Broad and Blurred International Consensus -- 4.1 The United States Origin of Trade Secret Legal Definition: Emergence and Analysis of a Blurred Object -- 4.1.1 Emergence of the Definition: The Crystallisation of the Common Law Factors as Legal Requirements -- 4.1.1.1 Comment b) of 757 Restatement (First) of Tort: A Compilation of Factors Used in the Common Law to Identify a Trade Se... -- 4.1.1.1.1 The Restatement as an Answer to the Scattered Development of the Trade Secrets Definition Due to the Common Law and.
4.1.1.1.2 The Uncertainty Regarding the Fundaments of Trade Secret Legal Apprehension -- 4.1.1.1.3 The Impossibility of Providing a Definition of Trade Secrets and the Synthesis of the Criteria Used in the Common La... -- 4.1.1.2 Shaping of the UTSA Definition: The Crystallisation of the Restatement Factors as Legal Requirements -- 4.1.1.2.1 The Crystallisation of the Restatement´s Factors as Definition Requirements -- 4.1.1.2.2 The Continuous Absence of the Identification of Clear Ratio Underpinning Trade Secrets Legal Protection and Its Lega... -- 4.1.2 The Analysis of the UTSA Definition: A Legal Object Without a Clear Shape -- 4.1.2.1 The Notion of Information: Requirement or Open Gate? -- 4.1.2.1.1 The Explicit Absence of Restrictions Regarding the Content of the Information -- 4.1.2.1.2 The Absence of a Clear Interpretation Regarding the Concept of `Information´ -- 4.1.2.2 The Secrecy and Independent Economic Value: Two (Potentially) Fundamental Requirements with Uncertain Meaning -- 4.1.2.2.1 The Independent Economic Value: A Restrictive Requirement or a Descriptive Inclusion Without Normative Value? -- 4.1.2.2.1.1 The Sketchy Guidance in the USTA -- 4.1.2.2.1.2 The Uncertainty Regarding the Relationship Between the Economic Value and the Secrecy Requirement -- 4.1.2.2.1.3 The Criteria Developed in the Case Law to Ascertain the Fulfilment of This Requirement -- 4.1.2.2.2 The Secrecy Requirement: The Absence of a Clear Benchmark Regarding the Intensity of the Secrecy Required -- 4.1.2.2.2.1 `Not Being Generally Known´ or `Not Being Readily Ascertainable´: The Two Elements of the Secrecy Requirement -- 4.1.2.2.2.2 The Absence of a Benchmark in the UTSA and in the Case Law Regarding the Intensity of the Secrecy -- 4.1.2.2.2.2.1 The Encompassment of Any Information Not Public Domain -- 4.1.2.2.2.2.2 The Need for a Certain Density of Secrecy.
4.1.2.3 The Reasonable Efforts of Protection: A Requirement in Search of a Proper Ratio -- 4.1.2.3.1 The Absence of a Bright-Line Test Regarding the Appreciation of the Reasonable Efforts of Protection Requirement -- 4.1.2.3.2 The Absence of a Clear Normative Function -- 4.1.3 Conclusion: The US Definition: The Lack of a Clear Conception -- 4.2 The Reception of the UTSA Definition Standards into Art. 39(2) TRIPS Agreement as Outcome of Negotiation Strategies -- 4.2.1 The TRIPS Negotiations: The Opposition of the Developing Countries to Trade Secrets Protection as an Open Door for Impos... -- 4.2.2 A Definition of Trade Secrets Largely Inspired by the UTSA -- 4.2.2.1 The Imposition of the UTSA Definition as the Baseline for the Negotiations as an Outcome of the Work of Industry Lobby... -- 4.2.2.2 More Restrictive Approach and `Constructive Ambiguity´ as the Way from the UTSA´s to the Art. 39(2) TRIPS´s Definition -- 4.2.3 Conclusion: On the Reception of the US Standard in the TRIPS Trade Secrets Definition: The Outcome of Political Continge... -- 4.3 Copying Art. 39(2) TRIPS Agreement Definition into Art. 2(1) EU-TSD: A Choice Based Only on Harmonisation Considerations -- 4.3.1 The Divergences in the Understanding of the Trade Secret Legal Object Within European National Legal Orders Prior to the... -- 4.3.1.1 France: The Unfair Competition Nature of Trade Secrets Protection and the Resulting Absence of a Trade Secret Legal De... -- 4.3.1.1.1 The Direct Protection and Definition of `Manufacturing Secrets´ as an Immaterial Asset -- 4.3.1.1.2 The Indirect Protection and Absence of a Trade Secrets Definition Under the Unfair Competition Claim -- 4.3.1.2 United Kingdom: The Genesis of Trade Secrets Protection in the Obligation of Confidence and the Resulting Absence of a... -- 4.3.1.2.1 A Regime Built on the Obligation of Confidence.
4.3.1.2.2 The Confidential Nature of the Information, a Requirement with Very Low Standards -- 4.3.1.3 Germany: The Definition of an Immaterial Asset in the Frame of an Unfair Competition Approach -- 4.3.1.3.1 The Emergence of the Definition of `Trade and Industrial Secrets´ as the Result of the Tension Between the Unfair Co... -- 4.3.1.3.2 Analysis of the Definition Criteria: The Struggle Between an Objective and Subjective Approach -- 4.3.2 The Absence of a Clear Vision Regarding the Role of the Subject Matter Definition and the Implementation of the TRIPS De... -- 4.3.2.1 The Absence of Determination of a Policy Purpose for the Definition -- 4.3.2.2 The Reception of Art. 39(2) TRIPS Definition in Art. 2(1) EU-TSD -- 4.3.2.2.1 The Recourse to the TRIPS Definition as the Easiest Solution for the Harmonisation of the Protection -- 4.3.2.2.2 The Consequence: The Harmonisation of EU Law Around an Uncertain Legal Object -- 4.3.3 Conclusion: The Adoption in the EU of the TRIPS Definition: A Pragmatic Decision -- 4.4 Conclusion: The Definition of Trade Secret Subject Matter in US and EU Law: A Blurred and Potentially Wide Encompassing Sc... -- Chapter 5: Trade Secrets Legal Apprehension: An Uncertain Normative Framework -- 5.1 A Flexible Protection Lost Between Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law -- 5.1.1 Trade Secrets Scope of Protection Ratione Materiae and Personae: Unfair Competition Premises and Intellectual Property A... -- 5.1.1.1 The Actions Prohibited: From the Prohibition of Delineated Market Behaviours to the Approximation of the Attribution o... -- 5.1.1.1.1 The Unfair Competition Premises: The Absence of Recognition of an Erga-Omnes Exclusive Right over the Information Pr... -- 5.1.1.1.2 The IP Approximation: The Extensive Definition of the Conducts Constitutive of a Trade Secrets Violation as a Negati.
5.1.1.1.2.1 The Unlawful Acquisition of Trade Secrets: An Exception to the Principle of the Free Circulation of Information wi... -- 5.1.1.1.2.1.1 The Broadness of the Definition of the Behaviours Considered Unlawful -- 5.1.1.1.2.1.2 The Lawfulness of the Acquisition: A Principle Eroded -- 5.1.1.1.2.1.2 The Progressive Devaluation of the Principle in the Systematics of Trade Secrets Legislation -- 5.1.1.1.2.1.2 The Lawfulness of `Independent Discovery´ and the Inclusion of General Clauses: From Self-Evidence to Uncertainty -- 5.1.1.1.2.1.2 The Lawfulness of `Reverse Engineering´: A Decisive Policy Clarification, Based on Exogenous Reasons -- 5.1.1.1.2.2 The Unlawful Use and Disclosure: Strengthening of the Rights of the Trade Secret Owner over Pieces of Information ... -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.1 In Combination with an Unlawful Acquisition: The Choice of the Reinforcement of the Owner´s Exclusivity -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.2 In Violation of an Existing Duty: The Reinforcement of the Legal Arsenal of the Trade Secret Owner -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.2 The Absence of an Express Listing of the Duties Concerned Within the Trade Secrets Regulations -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.2 The Regress to Duties Existing Independently of the Legal Protection of Trade Secrets -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.3 `Infringing Goods´ as Confirmation of the Wide Scope of the Notion of Trade Secrets´ Unlawful Uses -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.3 The Confirmation of the Extension of the Notion of `Unlawful Use´ to Follow-Up Commercial Actions -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.3 The Notion of `Infringing Good´: Objective Definition and Uncertainty of the Notion -- 5.1.1.1.2.2.3 The Encompassment of Extra-Territorial Behaviours Under the Scope of Trade Secrets as a True Purpose of the Legi... -- 5.1.1.2 The Conditions Relative to the Infringer: A Further Approximation to an IP Form of Regulation.
5.1.1.2.1 The Absence of a Limitation to Actions Committed by Persons Acting with a Commercial Purpose.
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Droit matériel européen des abus de position dominante : textes et commentaires / / Luc Desaunettes-Barbero et Étienne Thomas ; préface d'Emmanuelle Claudel
