Treewarat Rathviboon. The ambiguity of the term trade secret under trade secret B.E. 2545. Master's Degree(Business Laws). Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library. : Thammasat University, 2014.
The ambiguity of the term trade secret under trade secret B.E. 2545
Abstract:
When considering the claims for damages from the acquisition of trade secrets by unlawful acts, the data or idea has been classified as a trade secret will be considered first and what the defendant does will be the second. The law provides protection and prohibition on the disclosure of confidential information of the industry. Although the technology (which has been developed), is not patentable, the protection of trade secrets focuses on providing coverage to the owner. The purpose of the protection is to protect those studying the production by personal research or by independent sources rather than taking any trade secrets of others or acquiring by any unlawful acts. The majority of legal opinions consider the intellectual property as one criteria of property. It is the primary basis for determining remedies. For example, to consider a trade secret in the case of employment: the trade secrets of business and information considered the property of the employer, the employee cannot use such in conflict of interest with employers. It is important to protect the trade secret by not disclosing it without consent from its owner. When it comes to the court that whether the non-technical information is concerned as trade secret or not, such issue may cause the problem to the owner of the trade secret because the term trade secret under section 3 of the Trade Secret Act does not state the various kinds of trade secret as those in the US law. This thesis will conduct a comparative study on the definition of the term trade secret in order to protect the owner of the trade secret through the documentary research method, using texts and documents as source materials ; for example, international and domestic related laws, journals, periodicals, articles, information through the internet and other relevant documents. The obtained information will be applied and analyzed in order to obtain appropriate and practicable solutions to the problem. The United States laws will be analyzed: the Restatement of Torts 1939, the Restatement (third) of Unfair Competition 1995 and the Uniform Trade Secret Act 1985. The thesis is to propose the protection of trade secrets can truly happen in practice and to propose ways to determine the details (including the scope of the law)
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