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What is Trade Secrets

Innovative and Agile Contracting for Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0
Trade secrets are intellectual property (IP) rights on confidential information which may be sold or licensed. They are commercially valuable and known only to a limited group of persons.
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Contract Design and Related Agreements
Hasan Tayyeb (Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4501-0.ch003
Abstract
As we delve into value deconstruction, the number of contractors will increase a great deal, and every specialty will have its own parameters. The contract by its own will not be able to accommodate all clauses and conditions that may be due for changes. Now imagine, what would happen if important information like trade secrets of any corporation or business were to be leaked to competitors? And wouldn't it be so much better to legally oblige to privacy and urge those who consent to keep the information in question completely under wraps? For this reason, it is important to have an ecosystem of agreements such as NDAs, SLAs, and others to complete the chain and allow for efficient governance and risk management considerations. NDAs and confidentiality provisions have groundbreaking propensity. The design of such agreements is fundamental and various parameters must be considered. This chapter directs attention to these subjects and concerns by discussing the various types of complementary agreements and how they can be attached to the original contract to add value and reduce risk.
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Include any information that derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by the public and is the subject of reasonable measures to keep such information secret.
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