Trade Secrets Legal Protection

Luc Desaunettes-Barbero is a legal post-doctoral researcher at the UClouvain (Belgique). His research focuses on the area of intellectual property (especially copyright, patent, geographical indications, trade secret law), competition and unfair competition law and he authored serval publications and monographs in these domains. On top of his research agenda, Luc Desaunettes-Barbero is also a lecturer at the University Saint-Louis (Brussels), the University of Strasbourg and at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (Munich).

• Part I: Trade Secrets Legal Protection in the US and in the UE: AnAarea of Law in Search of Coherence.- Introduction to Part 1.- Premise – Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition: Two Regulatory Paradigms With Different Purposes and Apparatus.- Trade Secrets Subject Matter: A Broad and Blurred International Consensus.- Trade Secrets Legal Apprehension: An Uncertain Normative Framework.- Part II: Redefining Trade Secrets Law by Differentiating Between Two Different Legal Objects: The Secret Sphere and the Secret Pieces of Information.- Introduction to Part 2.- Premise – The Absence of Clear Theoretical Foundations.- The Legal Protection of Undertaking's Secret Sphere as a Necessity For The Functioning of the Market Economy.- The Legal  Apprehension of Secret Pieces of Information as Immaterial Goods Regulation.- Conclusion – The Distinction between the Secret Sphere and Secret Pieces of Information: The Need of a New Conceptual Model for Trade Secrets Law.- Part 3 - Conclusion.- General Conclusion.- Part 4 Summaries.- German Summary.- French Summary.- Bibliography.