Trade secret protection applies to confidential information that is generally technical in nature and which has a valuable commercial or industrial application.1 There are six non-exhaustive factors commonly analyzed by Canadian courts to determine if information is protectable as a trade...

A business secret is confidential knowledge or information that is capable of giving its holders a competitive advantage in the market.Protection of trade secrets in Brazil has historically not been associated with the notion of property since, technically speaking, unpatented information and...

Confidential information is protectable in Australia. There are different forms of confidential information recognized and different bases for protection. Providing the information has the necessary quality of confidentiality, it will be protectable irrespective of whether it is technical or...

I study the effect of noncompete agreements on low-earning workers using a noncompete ban in Austria. The ban increased treated workers’ annual job-to-job transition rate by 0.3 percentage points (a two percent increase). This effect was driven by within-industry job transitions. The reform...

Competitive job markets are critical to the success of the national economy, spurring innovation while boosting wages and labor equality. The moment is ripe for the new administration to foster competitive job markets by banning noncompete agreements (noncompetes). New empirical evidence shows...

Noncompete clauses in employment agreements are both common and controversial. An estimated 28 million Americans—nearly 20% of the U.S. workforce—are currently bound by a noncompete. The traditional view that noncompete agreements can facilitate increased productivity by encouraging...

In the modern data-driven economy, trade secrets are becoming a more important part of firms’ intellectual property strategies. For their part, governments worldwide have been introducing new legislation to broaden and toughen the protection for trade secrets citing estimates of the cost of...