The Trade Secrets Handbook

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.

This comprehensive treatment of the application of the federal securities laws to public finance takes you step-by-step through the process, from the structuring of a financing to the distribution of securities and the closing, with expert guidance on the practices, contractual relationships, trends, issues and market regulations involved. The differences between public and corporate finance, and the legal foundations for both, are compared. Fippinger provides illustrations, drawn from contemporary financing techniques, for public power, housing, airport, hospital and resource recovery facilities, water projects and elaborate public programs. This guide provides clear-cut answers to the questions that are most likely to come up in your practice: What are the relevant legal foundations and obligations for due diligence requirements? How do lawyers determine the existence of registrable securities in highly structured financings? and more.

"This book is intended to help business executives and in-house counsel take control of and protect what may be their businesses' most valuable assets-their trade secrets"--

Written by an experienced machinist and plastic injection mold maker, this groundbreaking manual will have users thinking and producing like experienced machinists. it provides practical "how-to" information that can immediately be used to improve one's machining skills, craftsmanship, and productivity.

Trade Secrets provides not only a general overview of the governing laws and leading cases, but also practical advice and case citations for a host of situations.

This book focuses on several large jurisdictions in which trade secret cases are heavily litigated to illustrate the concepts, but the analysis also includes other jurisdictions to demonstrate the differing approaches to the treatment of trade secrets. The book also draws on current, real-life examples of trade secret nightmares and the litigation experience of its primary authors to provide practical advice to the business owner, small legal department or firm, and solo practitioner.