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Summary
Database Name: Trade Secrets Throughout the World

Database Identifier: TRADESEC

Coverage
Content updated through November 2009 print update; updated once a year.

Updated annually.

Content Highlights:
Trade Secrets Throughout the World is a three-volume treatise that describes and analyzes the law of trade secrets in the United States and 30 other countries, many of which are significant U.S. trading partners. It offers guidance for handling international and global business decisions, gives the practical steps that must be taken in a given country to keep a trade secret from the public, analyzes both the criminal and civil protections available, and covers the interrelation of trade secrets and business issues.

This release contains updated and new information for the following chapters:

Argentina (Chapter 1)

Brazil (Chapter 5)

Canada (Chapter 6)

Denmark (Chapter 10)

France (Chapter 14)

Hong Kong (Chapter 17)

Ireland (Chapter 20)

Israel (Chapter 21)

Korea (Chapter 24)

The Netherlands (Chapter 27)

New Zealand (Chapter 28)

Russia (Chapter 30A)

Spain (Chapter 33)

Sweden (Chapter 34)

Taiwan (Chapter 35)


West extends its appreciation to the contributors whose outstanding assistance made the development of this update possible. Please refer to the title pages of their respective chapters for their names, and to the About the Authors and Contributors portion at the front of Volume 1 for each author's contact information and curriculum vitae

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Contents
Content Type(s): Treatise

This database contains Trade Secrets Throughout the World. It describes and analyzes the law of trade secrets in the United States and 30 other countries, many of which are significant U.S. trading partners. It offers guidance for handling international and global business decisions, gives the practical steps that must be taken in a given country to keep a trade secret from the public, analyzes both the criminal and civil protections available, and covers the interrelation of trade secrets and business issues.

A document is a numbered section of text, index, or other subdivision of the publication.

Publisher/Provider: Thomson Reuters/West

Author: Melvin F. Jager is a Managing Director of the Chicago Intellectual Property Consulting Firm of ICMB Ocean Tomo, LLC. He is a member of the Illinois and District of Columbia Bars, and has been engaged in the private practice of intellectual property law continually since 1962.

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Trade Secrets Throughout the World TRADESEC


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