The Obama administration is casting trade-secret theft as a major threat to both economic and national security.
WSJ: U.S. Ups Ante for Spying on Firms: China, Others Are Threatened With Penalties
"Trade-secret theft threatens American businesses, undermines national security, and places the security of the U.S. economy in jeopardy, " the document outlining the strategy says.
He and others claim that the new bill might drive inventors to avoid the patenting system altogether, and instead to guard their creations by using trade-secret laws.
The U.S. also will use trade arrangements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership to seek new provisions on trade-secret protections that include penalties similar to those in U.S. law.
WSJ: U.S. Ups Ante for Spying on Firms: China, Others Are Threatened With Penalties
The State Department will ensure that a consistent and "appropriate" message is delivered to foreign governments to communicate the administration's commitment to reducing the theft of intellectual property and the importance it places on more effective legal penalties and enforcement for trade-secret theft.
And yet, the results of the Non-Aggression Pact and its secret protocol live on while the Nazi-Soviet Trade Agreement holds lessons to this day.
Similarly, many important details of current German-Soviet trade and financial flows are kept secret, just as was done in 1939.
The company has been using and developing their own intelligence test, the content of which is considered so valuable a trade secret that it is done only in-house and on paper.
This story and others also invariably contain quotes from environmental groups or anti-development activists who complain about the trade secret protection clause in the Texas law, but who also have expressed longtime support for a proposed federal law commonly referred to as the FRAC Act.
These measures elevate the importance of trade secret protection in supplier relationships and create much-needed disincentives for theft.
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E-Trade's options management business may prove to be a secret weapon, with a market share of 60% and 3, 500 corporate clients.
When open-source code is involved, what can be defended as a trade secret?
These off-exchange venues keep prices hidden until after the trade and keep identities a secret.
And, most sobering, Mr. Mamet writes in "The Secret Knowledge, " there are no perfect solutions to inequality, only trade-offs.
Nor would a democratic country tolerate a government that operated through an elaborate system of secret meetings characterised by blatant arm-twisting and browbeating by the most powerful, like the World Trade Organisation.
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