Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors
Trade secret is a gold nugget that determines the success and survival of a business entity. It provides a business entity with a competitive value over its rival. However protecting a trade secret is not an easy task especially from current and former employee as well as from competitors. The task...
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| author | Abd. Jalil, Juriah Hassan, Halyani |
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| description | Trade secret is a gold nugget that determines the success and survival of a business entity. It provides a business entity with a competitive value over its rival. However protecting a trade secret is not an easy task especially from current and former employee as well as from competitors. The task is made difficult with the availability of technological devises that can be used to steal the information from inside and outside of the business organization. This paper highlights the importance of protecting trade secrets from theft of trade secret and corporate espionage by business entity and to recommend the best practice on how to protect from legal, administrative and technical perspectives. This study is significant to educate business entity especially SME on the importance of protecting trade secrets in this digital age and for the government to strengthen the law on protecting trade secrets. In this regards, protecting trade secrets is equivalent to protecting the economy of the country. |
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| spelling | iium-703412019-02-25T06:01:05Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/70341/ Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors Abd. Jalil, Juriah Hassan, Halyani K Law (General) Trade secret is a gold nugget that determines the success and survival of a business entity. It provides a business entity with a competitive value over its rival. However protecting a trade secret is not an easy task especially from current and former employee as well as from competitors. The task is made difficult with the availability of technological devises that can be used to steal the information from inside and outside of the business organization. This paper highlights the importance of protecting trade secrets from theft of trade secret and corporate espionage by business entity and to recommend the best practice on how to protect from legal, administrative and technical perspectives. This study is significant to educate business entity especially SME on the importance of protecting trade secrets in this digital age and for the government to strengthen the law on protecting trade secrets. In this regards, protecting trade secrets is equivalent to protecting the economy of the country. 2018-04-11 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/70341/1/Protecting%20trade%20secrets.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/70341/7/70341_Protecting%20Trade%20Secret%20from%20Theft%20-%20tentative.pdf Abd. Jalil, Juriah and Hassan, Halyani (2018) Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors. In: 7th International Conference on Law And Society (ICLAS 7), 11th-13th April 2018, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Unpublished) https://iclas2018.org/parallel-sessions/ |
| spellingShingle | K Law (General) Abd. Jalil, Juriah Hassan, Halyani Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| title | Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| title_full | Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| title_fullStr | Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| title_short | Protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| title_sort | protecting trade secret from theft and corporate espionage: business entity v employee & competitors |
| topic | K Law (General) |
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