{"id":5599,"date":"2015-11-11T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/practiceareas\/stock-purchase-agreements\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:53:49","slug":"aktienkaufvertrage","status":"publish","type":"practiceareas","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/praxisbereiche-2\/aktienkaufvertrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York, wie in den meisten Gerichtsbarkeiten, f\u00fchrt die widerrechtliche Aneignung von Gesch\u00e4ftsgeheimnissen zu einer zivilrechtlichen Haftung f\u00fcr den Veruntreuer. Gesch\u00e4ftsgeheimnisse werden im Allgemeinen als alle Formeln, Muster, Vorrichtungen oder Zusammenstellungen von Informationen definiert, die im eigenen Gesch\u00e4ft verwendet werden und die ihm die M\u00f6glichkeit geben, sich einen Vorteil gegen\u00fcber Wettbewerbern zu verschaffen, die sie nicht kennen oder verwenden. Zu den \u00fcblichen Gesch\u00e4ftsgeheimnissen geh\u00f6ren Computerquellcode (<em>z.B<\/em>, Google\u2019s proprietary search algorithm), recipes (ranging from soft drinks to FDA approved drug chemistry formation), and in some instances, customer lists and public data complied in a particular way that gives rise to trade secret protection.\u00a0 \u00a0Where a defendant has accessed or retained trade secreted information without authorization, the plaintiff has a strong misappropriation argument so long as the plaintiff can show that the defendant used the trade secret in breach of an agreement, confidence or duty, or as a result of discovery by improper means.\u00a0 In other words, once the information is out, if the defendant did not breach an agreement or duty to the holder of the trade secret, or did not acquire it through unlawful means, the argument against the defendant will fail.\u00a0 For these reasons, a most critical element of showing that information should be treated as a trade secret is that the holder of the information take extreme care to keep the information secret.<\/p>\n<p>Damages resulting from theft of trade secrets is generally limited to lost profits in New York.\u00a0 Other jurisdictions have precedents allowing for disgorgement of the misappropriator\u2019s profits that flowed from its use of the stolen trade secret, including federal courts applying New York law.\u00a0 Injunctions, preliminary and permanent are routinely sought.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York, as in most jurisdictions, misappropriation of trade secrets creates civil liability for the misappropriator.\u00a0 Trade secrets are generally defined as any formula, pattern, device or compilation of&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":236,"template":"","practiceareas_category":[747],"class_list":["post-5599","practiceareas","type-practiceareas","status-publish","hentry","practiceareas_category-business-litigation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas\/5599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/practiceareas"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas\/5599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"practiceareas_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas_category?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}