These measures elevate the importance of trade secret protection in supplier relationships and create much-needed disincentives for theft.

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So are we to conclude that these groups support trade secret protection at the federal level but not at the state level?

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"If someone can watch the performance and figure out what the secret is, then that magician would lose trade secret protection, " says Crasson.

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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.

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The modus operandi of MSSB is evident: make the protection of its trade secret customer information enormously expensive for Fidelity, and then argue to arbitration panel(s) that the damages at stake are ininiscule.

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