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Criminal Enforcement of Trade Secret Theft: Strategic Considerations for Canadian SMEs

TIM Review

As IP theft remains hard for firms to detect, much less obtain legal redress for, their incentives are to rely more on their own efforts to conceal trade secrets and less on patents that entail public disclosure. New estimates suggest that trade secret theft is between 1% and 3% of GDP, meaning that the cost to the $18 trillion U.S.

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