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Library Trade Secrets Resources

Business Torts and Unfair Competition Handbook by Jay Bogan and Mike Ferrill
Call Number: KF1301.A2 B874
Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets in Employment Law : An International Survey by Wendi S. Lazar, Gary R. Siniscalco
Call Number: 346.02 R313
Business & Economics Library

The Law Library has several print resources on trade secrets law topics. Try the catalog for further resources.

Cases and Materials on Patent Law : Including Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks by William H. Francis, Robert C. Collins
Call Number: KF3113 .C47 2002
The Entrepreneur's Guide : to Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets & Licensing by Jill Gilbert
Call Number: 346.73048 G374e
Engineering Library

Trade Secrets Treatises and Secondary Sources

Milgrim on Trade Secrets
Regularly updated treatise on trade secrets issues, call number KF3197.A6 M5. Also available on Lexis (law access only).
Trade Secrets [Westlaw]
Trade secrets treatise by Melvin F. Jager available on Westlaw (law access only).
Trade Secrets: A Practitioner's Guide [Westlaw]
Text of PLI's Trade Secrets: A Practitioners Guide by Henry H. Perritt Jr., which covers legal protections for innovations, information, and expertise, including subject matter of trade secrets; competitive advantage, novelty, and investment; wrongful use and wrongful acquisition; defenses; transferring rights; litigation; trial; remedies; and international disputes, available on Westlaw (law access only).
Protecting Trade Secrets [Lexis]
Handbook covering the key concepts and nuances of trade secret law, with practice forms, available on Lexis (law access only).
Trade Secrets Throughout the World [Westlaw]
Trade Secrets Throughout the World is a three-volume treatise that describes and analyzes the law of trade secrets in the United States and 30 other countries, many of which are significant U.S. trading partners. Available from Westlaw (law access only).

Trade Secret Statutes, Regulations and Treaties

United States Code
Trade Secrets are not addressed statutorily by federal law in the same way that copyright/patent/trademarks are. However, the crime of trade secret violation is defined by Chapter 90 of Title 18.
50 State Survey [Westlaw]
Each state has its own set of trade secret laws, many based off of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. This 50 state survey (available through Westlaw - law access only) provides state by state analysis of trade secret law.

Trade Secrets Case Reporters

Trade secret cases that reach the appellate level are reported in the standard federal and state reporters. There are also several reporters that specialize in trade secret and IP cases:

Federal Trademark, Unfair Competition & Trade Secret Cases & Administrative Decisions [Lexis]
Group file containing federal trademark, trade secret and unfair competition case law and administrative decisions. It also includes the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and International Trade Commission cases. Available on Lexis (law access only).

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