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, including discussion of the following:

• An introduction to the legal system
• Trade secrets as defined by statutes or case law
• Protection of trade secrets under criminal law
• Protection of trade secrets under civil law
• Governmental regulations related to licensing and other commercialization of secret technologies
• How to maintain the confidentiality of trade secrets during government agency review and during litigation
• Taxation of trade secrets and the accounting treatment of research and development cost incurred in developing the trade secret technologies

• Full index aids in research
• Select chapter appendices provide English translations of pertinent statutes, regulations, guidelines, and forms
• Select chapter appendices provide English translations of pertinent statutes, regulations, guidelines and forms
• Each chapter covers distinct nation states or regions, to aid in quickly finding exactly the information one needs in a given jurisdiction