– Law of the Kyrgyz Republic of March 30, 1998 on "Trade Secrets", as amended.

Membership in International Conventions

– Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Stockholm Act, as of December 25, 1991.
– WTO's TRIPS Agreement, as of December 20, 1998.

Protection

Definition: a trade secret is information that is not a state secret and is related to the production, technology, management, financial and other activities of an entity, the disclosure of which may harm its interests.

Criteria for enforcement: trade secrets must (1) have actual or potential value for the business entity; (2) not be generally known or publicly available; (3) be designated accordingly by business entities where they adopt appropriate measures to preserve its confidentiality through a classification system for the named information, developing internal rules for restricting use, introducing appropriate labeling of documents and other information carriers, organizing accounting, storage and application.

Assignment - licensing: possible.

Remedies for misappropriation: the violation of the Law may result in disciplinary, material, administrative and criminal liability, provided that the information was kept secret by the business entity, and that the disclosure caused damage. Employees of an entity, state bodies, as well as persons who have illegally obtained information constituting a trade secret, or who have taken possession of it, are also obliged to compensate for the damage caused to an economic or business entity.

Comments: the Law provides for the exception on the prohibition of disclosure in cases if the right to disclose is provided in the agreement or legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of combating the financing of terrorist activities and the laundering of criminal proceeds.