– Title 8/1 "Trade secrets" of Book XI "Intellectual Property" of the Code of Economic Law, entered into force on August 24, 2018.

– Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, Stockholm Act.
– WTO's TRIPS Agreement, since January 1, 1995.

Definition: a trade secret means information which meets all of the following requirements: (a) it is secret in the sense that it is not, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of its components, generally known among or readily accessible to persons within the circles that normally deal with the kind of information in question; (b) it has commercial value because it is secret; and (c) it has been subject to reasonable steps under the circumstances, by the person lawfully in control of the information, to keep it secret.

Criteria for enforcement: the trade secret must have been subject to reasonable steps under the circumstances, by the person lawfully in control of the information, to keep it secret.

Assignment - licensing: possible, by contractual agreement.

Remedies for misappropriation: when the judge finds that there has been an unlawful acquisition, unlawful use or unlawful disclosure of a trade secret, he may, at the request of the holder of the trade secret, order against the infringer one or more of the following measures: (a) the cessation of, or, as the case may be, the prohibition of the acquisition, use or disclosure of the trade secret; (b) the prohibition of the production, offering, placing on the market or use of infringing goods, or the importation, export or storage of infringing goods for these purposes; (c) the recall of the infringing goods from the market; (d) depriving the infringing goods of their infringing quality; (e) the destruction of the infringing goods or, where appropriate, their withdrawal from the market, provided that the withdrawal from the market does not undermine the protection of the trade secret in question; (f) the destruction, in whole or in part, of the documents, objects, materials, substances or electronic files containing or embodying the trade secret, or, where appropriate, the delivery, in whole or in part, of those documents, objects, materials, substances or electronic files to the holder of the trade secret. Further, the trade secret holder is entitled to compensation for any damage caused by the unlawful acquisition, use or disclosure of the trade secret. And in legal proceedings instituted for the unlawful acquisition, use or disclosure of a trade secret, the judge may order, at the request of the plaintiff, that his decision or the summary he draws up be posted during the time specified by him, both outside and inside the infringer's establishments and that his judgment or the summary thereof be published in newspapers or in any other way, all at cost of the infringer.