After completing this section, you will be able to Trade secret law is a source of protection for intellectual property that serves as an alternative to patent or trademark law.

Whereas patent and trademark law require that the intellectual property to be protected be publicly “disclosed” (for example, through a patent application), trade secret law requires precisely the opposite—that is… The subject matter of a trade secret may be virtually any information that is of value as a result of not being generally known

Be able to define trade secrets; identify the advantages and disadvantages of protecting intellectual property through trade secrets; identify the roots of trade secret law in the United States.