The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy A Handbook of Contemporary Research

Hard cover. Pages: 640. 640 p. Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property series . Intended for college/higher education audience. This timely Handbook marks a major shift in innovation studies moving the focus of attention from the standard intellectual property regimes of copyright patent and trademark to an exploration of trade secrecy and the laws governing know-how tacit knowledge and confidential relationships. The editors introduce the long tradition of trade secrecy protection and its emerging importance as a focus of scholarly inquiry. The book then presents theoretical doctrinal and comparative considerations of the foundations of trade secrecy before moving on to study the impact of trade secrecy regimes on innovation and on other social values. Coverage includes topics such as sharing norms expressive interests culture politics competition health and the environment. This important Handbook offers the first modern exploration of trade secrecy law and will strongly appeal to intellectual property academics and to students and lawyers practicing in the intellectual property area. Professors in competition law constitutional law and environmental law will also find much to interest them in this book as will innovation theorists. Contributors include: R.G. Bone C.M. Correa R. Denicola R.S. Eisenberg V. Falce H. First J.C. Fromer G. Ghidini C.T. Graves M.A. Lemley D.S. Levine D.E. Long M.L. Lyndon M.J. Madison F.A. Pasquale J.H. Reichman M. Risch P. Samuelson S.K. Sandeen G. Van Overwalle E. von Hippel D.L. Zimmerman