Therefore, any breach or disclosure of a trade secret might result in significant. Any practice or process of a company that is generally not known outside of the company. Trade secrets are a valuable resource to many companies whose assets may, for instance, not. Protecting and enforcing trade secrets in the digital age prepared for aipla 2016 spring meeting by. Causal evidence on the proprietary cost hypothesis article in journal of accounting research 561 september 2017 with 93 reads how we measure reads. Find out more about this topic, read articles and blogs or research legal issues, cases, and codes on findlaw. I complement these measures by using the staggered passage of the uniform trade secrets act as a shock to trade secrecy. Protecting your companys trade secrets from disclosure. Businesses strive to protect their trade secrets by enacting corporate security. A trade secret is any practice or process of a company that is generally not. The effects of proprietary information on corporate. Managers cannot publicly disclose trade secret information to investors without.
Intellection of trade secret and innovation laws in india article pdf available in journal of intellectual property rights 164. The effects of proprietary information on corporate disclosure and transparency. Trade secret protection does not require disclosure or registration 3. Evidence from trade secrets abstract i examine the effects of proprietary information on corporate transparency and voluntary disclosure. Causal evidence on the proprietary cost hypothesis 2017. Li, yinghua and lin, yupeng and zhang, liandong, trade secrets law and corporate disclosure. Causal evidence on the proprietary cost hypothesis. Xin wang, hao xue, haiwen zhang, participants in the 2016 tsinghua international corporate governance conference, and the seminar participants and colleagues at the city university of hong kong, national university of singapore. Identify the incorrect statement about a trade secret. The effects of proprietary information on corporate disclosure and. Pdf intellection of trade secret and innovation laws in. However, the line between employer trade secrets and employee. Abstract this study exploits the staggered adoption of the inevitable disclosure doctrine idd by u.
Singapore management university school of accountancy research paper no. These practices of trade secret misappropriation and corporate espionage, whether. Evidence from trade secrets yale school of management. See lynn sharp paine, corporate policy and the ethics of competitor intelligence. Information considered a trade secret gives the company an economic advantage over its.
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