The Trade Secret Recipe: A 'Reasonable' Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Your Confidential Information

摘要

This article looks briefly at the common law development in the UK of breach of confidence and the nature of a "trade secret", before going on to consider some practical measures that could be taken in order to demonstrate pursuant to the Trade Secrets Directive (2016/943) (which was required to be implemented in EU Member States by 9 June 2018) that reasonable steps have been taken to keep such trade secrets or information secret. Breach of confidence; EU law; Trade secrets