Trade Secrets Throughout the World provides a comprehensive review of the practices and procedures for protecting trade secrets in over 40 nations worldwide, including many of the United States' largest trading partners. Written by contributing authors who are practitioners and experts in the jurisdictions covered, this treatise offers guidance for handling international and global business decisions, provides the practical steps that must be taken in a given country to preserve a trade secret from being revealed, analyzes both the civil and criminal penalties for misappropriation of trade secrets, and covers the interrelation of trade secrets with other global business issues. Find information quickly and easily with a common general organization structure of the analysis of trade law in each country:An introduction to the legal systema discussion of trade secrets as defined by statutes or case lawthe protection of trade secrets under criminal lawthe protection of trade secrets under civil lawgovernmental regulations related to licensing and other commercialization of secret technologieshow to maintain the confidentiality of trade secrets during government agency review and during litigationtaxation of trade secrets and the accounting treatment of research and development cost incurred in developing the trade secret technologies.