Forms of Trade Secrets in the Digital Economy

The use of digital technologies in entrepreneurial activity expands the boundaries within which it is possible to identify and subsequently use commercially relevant information. The digital economy, on the one hand, creates an environment where businesses are able to implement the actual or potential value of information that constitutes a trade secret more widely, and, on the other hand, it creates new risks in the information environment that businesses may not be ready for. It is becoming relevant to search for new manifestations of trade secrets in the digital environment. The main purpose of the study is to substantiate the pattern of changes in views on commercially significant information in the digital economy. A secondary goal is to disclose the possible practical use of digital technologies when working with information that constitutes a trade secret. The stated goals determine the task of rethinking the very institution of trade secrets under the pressure of new technologies. Methodologically, the study is based on comparison, analysis, synthesis, and modeling. The study described a number of perspectives for rethinking the institution of trade secrets. The use of digital technologies is not recognized as an obligatory factor in the functioning of commercial secrets in the new conditions, but the involvement of such technologies in the business sphere can expand the horizons of the range of information constituting a commercial secret, as well as lay the foundation for an approach to secrecy protection in which any deliberate act of violating it is outlawed. Under the current legal regulation and established judicial practice, failure by the owner of the trade secret to perform the formal actions listed in the paper may lead to the conclusion that the trade secret regime has not been established, and this legalizes the actions of the offender.

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