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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction PART I: FOUNDATIONS - 1. Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. 2. The Restatements, the Uniform Act and the Status of American Trade Secret Law. 3. Trade Secrecy, Innovation and the Requirement of Reasonable Secrecy Precautions. 4. Trade Secrecy and Common Law Confidentiality: The Problem of Multiple Regimes. 5. The Surprising Virtues of Treating Trade Secrets as IP Right. 6. Trade Secrets as Intellectual Property Rights: A Disgraceful Upgrading – Notes on an Italian ‘Reform’. 7. Trade Secret Law and Information Development Incentives PART II: SECRECY AND SHARING - 8. How Trade Secrecy Law Generates a Natural Semicommons of Innovative Know-how. 9. Open Innovation and the Private-collective Model for Innovation Incentives. 10. Open Secrets. 11. Uncorking Trade Secrets: Sparking the Interaction between Trade Secrecy and Open Biotechnology PART III: IMPACT ON OTHER PUBLIC POLICY ARENAS - 12. First Amendment Defenses in Trade Secrecy Cases. 13. Trade Secrets and the ‘Philosophy’ of Copyright: A Case of Culture Crash. 14. Trade Secrets and Antitrust Law. 15. The Troubling Consequences of Trade Secret Protection of Search Engine Rankings. 16. The Impact of Trade Secrecy on Public Transparency. 17. Trade Secrets and Information Access in Environmental Law. 18. Data Secrecy in the Age of Regulatory Exclusivity PART IV: INTERNATIONAL ISSUES - 19. Trade Secrets and Traditional Knowledge: Strengthening International Protection of Indigenous Innovation. 20. The Limits of Trade Secret Law: Article 39 of the TRIPS Agreement and the Uniform Trade Secrets Act on which it is Based. 21. Test Data Protection: Rights Conferred Under the TRIPS Agreement and Some Effects of TRIPS-plus Standards Index