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'This book makes a remarkable contribution to the understanding of the legal foundations and main features of trade secret law in several jurisdictions. It also provides useful guidance to deal with practical issues concerning trade secrets protection. While carefully addressing the balance between the protection of private interests and the principles of free competition, the book examines recent initiatives to fight foreign and cyber-espionage and their implications for the configuration of trade secrets law, the enforcement of rights and professional practice.'- Carlos M. Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

'Two powerful forces push against each other in the high-stakes world of modern commerce. First, innovation is key, because the competition for old, established products is fierce. Second, commerce today is inherently and relentlessly global. Because innovation is often best protected through trade secrecy, this body of law has taken on enormous importance throughout the world in recent years. But the effective protection of trade secrets varies significantly from country to country. So what to do? The authors of this essential book provide practical and detailed answers to this crucial question. They begin by emphasizing the inclusion of trade secrets in the TRIPs Agreement, and the model for TRIPs-level protection, the US Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), which serves as a baseline for protection around the world. They then describe in detail the importance of contractual protection and self-help measures as crucial adjuncts to formal legal protection. They provide a concise summary of trade secret laws in all important trading partner countries in the world. And they describe practical strategies for effective trade secret protection. The long and short of it is that this book is an excellent, practical resource for lawyers needing to know how best to navigate the tricky but essential waters of global trade secret protection.' -- Robert Merges, University of California, Berkeley, US 'The great virtue of this work is found in its excellent structure. The first part provides a neat introductory road map for fundamental trade secrets concepts, then considers the TRIPS obligation, the trade secret law of the United States with well explained sections on trade secrets in business transactions, employment relations, enforcement and litigation, government secrets and data exclusivity. The second part provides country overviews with sections for common law and civil law countries and the appendices examine aspects of the proposed EU Directive. This is a comprehensive, sensible, practical, intelligently balanced, thoroughly researched and well written work that will be of real value to anyone interested in this increasingly important area of commercial law.' -- Ping Xiong, University of South Australia 'This book makes a remarkable contribution to the understanding of the legal foundations and main features of trade secret law in several jurisdictions. It also provides useful guidance to deal with practical issues concerning trade secrets protection. While carefully addressing the balance between the protection of private interests and the principles of free competition, the book examines recent initiatives to fight cyber-espionage and their implications for the configuration of trade secrets law, the enforcement of rights and professional practice.' -- Carlos M. Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 'In total, a very valuable and thorough law book.' -- The Criminal Lawyer

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Elizabeth A. Rowe, University of Virginia School of Law, US and Sharon K. Sandeen, Robins Kaplan LLP Distinguished Professor in Intellectual Property Law and Director of IP Institute, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Minnesota, US

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