– Trade Secrets Act, in force since October 23, 2018.

Membership in International Conventions

– Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
– WTO's TRIPS Agreement.

Protection

Definition: a trade secret is information, which meets all of the following requirements: (1) it is secret in the sense that it is, in its entirety or in the correct composition and arrangement of its components, not generally known or readily available to those within the circles usually concerned with such information; (2) it has commercial value because it is secret; (3) the person legally in control of the information has taken reasonable steps, under the circumstances, to keep it secret.

Criteria for enforcement: reasonable steps must be taken to keep it secret.

Assignment - licensing: possible.

Remedies for misappropriation: (1) the cessation or prohibition of the unlawful use or unlawful disclosure of the trade secret; (2) the prohibition to produce, offer, market or use infringing goods, or to import, export or store infringing goods for these purposes; (3) the recall of the infringing goods from the market; (4) total or partial destruction of the documents, objects, substances, materials or electronic files that unlawfully contain the trade secret or the surrender thereof, in whole or in part, to the trade secret holder; (5) compensation for damages.