Abstract
As recognized by the Supreme Court in the case of Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicr on Corp.,’ the protection of trade secrets and confidential information in the United States has primarily been a matter of state law. Thus instead of a uniform body of United States federal trade secret law, each state has determined, through its courts and state statutes, the nature of the trade secret law to be applied in that state.
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Vitoria, ‘Trade Secrets, Know-How and Confidential Information in English Law,’ in A.N. WISE, TRADE SECRETS AND KNOW-HOW THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, (Vol. 2) 2–11 (1981).
E. JUCKER, PATENTS AND PHARMACEUTICALS 48 (1980). 75 See WISE, supra note 24, Section 1.01.
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Bent, S.A., Schwaab, R.L., Conlin, D.G., Jeffery, D.D. (1987). Trade Secret Laws of Various Countries. In: Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Worldwide. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08009-0_11
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