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Did the defend trade secrets act spur the reliance on trade secrets?

Hussinger, Katrin - 2026

This paper explores whether the U.S. Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) increased the declaration of trade secrets. Leveraging cross-sectoral variation in the importance of trade secrets prior to the DTSA, empirical results show that the DTSA was followed by an increase in the intensive margin of...

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Did the defend trade secrets act spur the reliance on trade secrets?

Hussinger, Katrin - 2026

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Non-compete and related clauses in Switzerland

Andrews, Dan; Garnero, Andrea; Holttinen, Sara - 2026

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Collective bargaining and monopsony : the regulation of noncompete agreements in France

Boeri, Tito; Crescioli, Tommaso; Garnero, Andrea; … - 2026

Can collective bargaining mitigate monopsony power? This paper addresses this question by examining how the regulation of noncompete agreements for employees by collective agreements affects firm-level markdowns in the French manufacturing sector. Using a staggered difference-in-differences...

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Collective bargaining and monopsony : the regulation of noncompete agreements in France

Boeri, Tito; Crescioli, Tommaso; Garnero, Andrea; … - 2025

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Non-compete and non-solicitation clauses

Mohan, M. P. Ram; Shukla, Siddhartha; Lyle, Tom; … - 2026

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Safeguarding secrets, shaping acquisitions : trade secret protection and the role of distance between acquirer and target

Arroyabe, M. F.; Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2025

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Safeguarding secrets, shaping acquisitions : trade secret protection and the role of distance between acquirer and target

Arroyabe, M. F.; Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2025

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Safegarding secrets, shaping acquisitions: trade secret protection and the role of distance between acquirer and target

Arroyabe, M. F.; Grimpe, Christophe; Hussinger, Katrin - 2025

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How firms competitively became non-competitive : the diffusion of CEO noncompete agreements, 1996-2015

Lee, Kwan - 2025

Purpose - This study aims to explore the diverse factors influencing the adoption of post-employment noncompete agreements (NCAs) between firms and their CEOs. Drawing on the organizational literature regarding the diffusion of contested organizational practices as well as research on law and...

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Does protection of trade secrets matter for firms' access to external capital?

Ahmed, Mohamed Shaker; Isskandarani, Layal; Sharif, Taimur - 2025

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Trade secrets protection and employment of public firms : evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Liu, Andrew Yizhou - 2025

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Trade secrets in Latin America in a nutshell

2025

The Latin America IP SME Helpdesk offers multilingual services (English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese), with free information and first-line legal advice on IP related subjects, as well as training, webinars and publications, especially designed for EU SMEs.

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Trade secrets in Latin America in a nutshell

2025

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Trade secret laws and initial public offering underpricing

Chang, Chu-hsuan; Liang, Woan-lih; Yanzhi, Wang - 2024

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The impact of restricting labor mobility on corporate investment and entrepreneurship

Jeffers, Jessica S. - 2024

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Strategic restraint : when do human-capital-intensive companies choose (not) to use noncompete agreements?

Ganco, Martin; Liu, Jingnan; Wang, Haifeng; Yamaguchi, … - 2024

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Strategic behaviours in a labour market with mobility-restricting contractual provisions : evidence from the National Hockey League

Fumarco, Luca; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2024

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Mobility-restricting covenants in business contracts : the case of franchising

Lafontaine, Francine; Luisetto, Lorenzo; Prescott, James J. - 2026

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Non-compete agreements in a rigid labour market : the case of Italy

Boeri, Tito; Garnero, Andrea; Luisetto, Lorenzo G. - 2023

Non-compete clauses (NCCs) limiting the mobility of workers have been found to be rather widespread in the US, a flexible labour market with large turnover rates and a limited coverage of collective bargaining. This paper explores the presence of such arrangements in a rigid labour market, with...

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Non-compete agreements in a rigid labour market : the case of Italy

Boeri, Tito; Garnero, Andrea; Luisetto, Lorenzo G. - 2023

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The Law and Ethics of Trade Secrets : A Case Study

Saunders, Kurt M. - 2023

Almost every business owns proprietary information that adds value and provides a competitive advantage because the information is not known to the business's competitors. Trade secret law protects such information from theft or unauthorized disclosure. Because one of the principal policies...

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Trade Secret Case Management Judicial Guide

Menell, Peter S.; Almeling, David; Cundiff, Victoria A; … - 2023

As the knowledge economy expanded and concerns about trade secret misappropriation mounted in the digital age, federal policymakers undertook efforts to reinforce trade secret protection a decade ago. These efforts came to fruition with passage of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA)....

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Trade Secrets and Stock Returns

Luo, Di - 2023

In examining the staggered recognition of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) as an exogenous shock to trade secret protection, we demonstrate that firms display lower stock returns following the recognition in a difference-in-differences (DID) design. Cross-sectional regression results...

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Definition of Trade Secret

Contreras, Jorge L. - 2023

This entry in the online Global Dictionary of Competition Law defines the term trade secret: information that has commercial value to an organization due to its secrecy, is not known outside of the organization, and the continuing secrecy of which the organization has taken reasonable measures...

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Noncompete agreements, training, and wage competition

Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune - 2023

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Noncompete Agreements, Training, and Wage Competition

Shy, Oz; Stenbacka, Rune - 2022

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Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach

Hiraiwa, Takuya; Lipsitz, Michael; Starr, Evan - 2023

We study whether firms value court enforceability of their workers’ noncompete agreements (NCAs), leveraging a 2020 Washington law that made NCAs unenforceable for workers earning less than a threshold of $100k per year (indexed to inflation), covering approximately 79% of Washing-ton workers....

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Trade secrets litigation trends in the EU

2023

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Protect or Prevent? Non-Compete Agreements and Innovation

Rockall, Emma; Reinmuth, Kate - 2023

A large proportion of the US workforce is covered by non-compete agreements (NCAs), but recently their use has become one of intense policy debate, with the FTC recently proposing to ban them. In this paper, we examine what effect such a policy change might be expected to have on innovation, and...

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Trade Secret Economics and Value

Perdue, Glenn - 2023

Like other forms of intellectual property (IP), trade secret value may arise from two primary sources. The first is proprietary competitive advantage gained through use of the IP coupled with the right to exclude others from such use. The second is by monetizing IP directly through licensing to...

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The labor market effects of legal restrictions on worker mobility

Johnson, Matthew S.; Lavetti, Kurt; Lipsitz, Michael - 2025

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Trade secret protection and the integration of information within firms

Andreicovici, Ionela; Bormann, Sara; Hombach, Katharina - 2025

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Does trade secret protection spur human capital investment? : evidence from the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine

Chen, Steven Xianglong; Cao, Zhangfan; Zheng, Xiaolan - 2025

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Strategic Restraint : Why Companies Do Not Use Noncompete Agreements When They Can?

Ganco, Martin; Liu, Jingnan (Jane); WANG, Haifeng; … - 2022

Extant work in strategic management has focused on the role of various legal levers when managing human capital. Companies use such levers to improve employee retention and prevent leakage of knowledge to rivals. Specifically, noncompete agreements (NCAs), contracts that prevent employees from...

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Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Trade Secrets Cases : The EU Perspective

Ohly, Ansgar - 2022

Trade secrecy law is a hybrid between intellectual property and unfair competition law. This makes the characterisation of trade secrecy law for the purpises of private international law difficult. This paper argues that neither the EU conflict of law rules for unfair competition law nor those...

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Trade secret protection and R&D investment of family firms

Hussinger, Katrin; Issah, Wunnam Basit - 2022

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Trade secret protection and R&D investment of family firms

Hussinger, Katrin; Issah, Wunnam Basit - 2022

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Trade secret protection and R&D investment of family firms

Hussinger, Katrin; Issah, Wunnam Basit - 2022

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Trade Secret Protection and R&D Investment of Family Firms

Hussinger, Katrin; Issah, Wunnam Basit - 2022

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Trade Secret Protection and Firms’ Internal Transparency

Andreicovici, Ionela; Bormann, Sara; Hombach, Katharina - 2022

We examine the effects of trade secret protection laws on firms’ internal transparency. By internal transparency, we refer to the extent to which information is integrated, distributed, and shared within the firm. We argue that stronger trade secret protection reduces firms’ proprietary...

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Noncompete agreements and the welfare of consumers

Lipsitz, Michael; Tremblay, Mark J. - 2024

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Noncompete Agreements and the Welfare of Consumers

Lipsitz, Michael; Tremblay, Mark J. - 2022

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The behavioral effects of (unenforceable) contracts

Starr, Evan; Prescott, James J.; Bishara, Norman - 2020

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The Behavioral Effects of (Unenforceable) Contracts

Starr, Evan; Prescott, James J.; Bishara, Norman - 2022

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Patents and Trade Secrets

Bently, Lionel A. F.; Aplin, Tanya - 2022

This paper discusses the overlap and interaction between patents and trade secrets in the United Kingdom, with relevant comparisons to United States law. It considers the use of trade secrets protection as an alternative or complement to patent protection

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Don't Abolish Employee Noncompete Agreements

Meese, Alan J. - 2022

For over three centuries, Anglo-American courts have assessed employee noncompete agreements under a Rule of Reason. Despite longstanding precedent, some now advocate banning all such agreements. These advocates contend that employers use superior bargaining power to impose such “contracts of...

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Employee non-compete agreements, gender, and entrepreneurship

Marx, Matt - 2022

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China IP SME Helpdesk : cybercrimes and trade secret protection : guide

2022

The digital revolution introducing new technologies has rapidly and substantially changed the way we are working, creating new opportunities for businesses to boost productivity and growth. The Internet, in particular, is seen as an essential tool for companies to develop, communicate and...

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Non-compete clauses : a business ethics case supporting a qualified legal use by employers

Hemphill, Thomas A. - 2024

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The impacts of restricting mobility of skilled service workers : evidence from physicians

Lavetti, Kurt; Simon, Carol J.; White, William Deakins - 2020

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The Impacts of Restricting Mobility of Skilled Service Workers : Evidence from Physicians

Lavetti, Kurt; Simon, Carol J.; White, William - 2021

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Noncompetes and Other Post-Employment Restraints on Competition : Empirical Evidence from Trade Secret Litigation

Seaman, Christopher B. - 2021

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...

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Quantifying trade secret theft : policy implications

Ciuriak, Dan; Ptaškina, Marija - 2021

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Quantifying Trade Secret Theft : Policy Implications

Ciuriak, Dan; Ptaškina, Marija - 2021

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Dynamic Protection of Innovations Through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Francis - 2021

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...

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Dynamic Protection of Innovations Through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul - 2014

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Protection, Enforcement and Licensing of Trade Secrets in View of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Walker, John; Wilkinson, Dr. Dallas L. - 2021

On June 24, 2020, the LESI Chemicals Engineering Environment Materials Committee (CEEM) held a webinar on the important topic of trade secret management and more broadly, IP management. The webinar drew together expert panelists from a wide range of industries and regions within the CEEM sector....

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Trade Secret Protection in Usmca and its Implications for Korea

Kim, Hyunsoo - 2021

The USMCA, which was signed on November 30, 2018, contains a high-standard and comprehensive IP chapter and the most notable feature of the IP chapter in the USMCA, is that it includes a separate section for trade secrets in which strong standards of protection are set out. The United States is...

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Trade Secrets - United States

Williamson, John - 2021

The scope of protection in the United States is broad. Under the applicable federal statute, 35 U.S.C. § 1836, et seq. (DTSA) and the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) on which most state statutes are based, any information may be protectable as a trade secret as long as that information (1) is...

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Trade Secrets - Switzerland

Chuffart- Finsterwald, Stéphanie - 2021

Switzerland is a Member State of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which specifically protects undisclosed information (Article 39(2)). Confidential/undisclosed information is protected by a variety of provisions across the Swiss legal...

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Trade Secrets - South Africa

Kleyn, Madelein; Harmelen, Joanne van - 2021

A trade secret is protectable when it (1) relates to and is capable of application in trade or industry; (2) has the necessary quality of secrecy or confidence, is not in the public domain and is known only to a restricted number of persons; and (3) has economic value to the proprietor (e.g.,...

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Trade Secrets - Singapore

Yap, Audrey - 2021

The law of confidence is capable of encompassing all information that any party has an interest in keeping confidential. While confidential information generally comprises information of a commercial nature (e.g., a company’s internal guidelines and policies), it also includes information of a...

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Trade Secrets - Russia

Alexandrov, Evgeny; Goryachev, Ilya - 2021

As such, the relations with regard to information are governed by the Federal law of 27.07.2006 “On information, information technologies and information protection” (“the Information Law”).Section 7, Article 2 of the Information Law provides for a “confidentiality of information”...

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