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Trade Secret Piracy, Martin A. Levitin

Cleveland State Law Review

In their handling of trade secret cases, courts should take care that they do not make the discoveries of corporate research unprotectable and of insufficient value to warrant further private research expenditure. On the other hand, they must take care not to bar engineers and scientists from changing jobs, as a punishment for their own productivities and abilities-a modern form of intellectual involuntary servitude.