Tailoring a Public Policy Exception to Trade Secret Protection

Terrorism , Trade and Public Policy

Are bigger markets safer? How should government policy respond to terrorist threats? Trade draws potential terrorists and economic predators into productive activity, but trade also draws terrorist attacks. Larger trade reduces the risk of terrorist attack when the wage elasticity is high, associated with low ratios of predators to prey and high wages; but it may increase the risk of terrorist ...

a comparison between patent and trade secret regimes in protection of industrial property rights

in the past and before granting the inventors and owners of intellectual property rights special exclusive rights and privileges under the patent laws, the protection of intellectual property rights was possible only through a legal regime which could help to keep the know how and innovation secret. this regime, in which contractual terms are often used to keep the innovation secret, is called ...

Absenteeeism Due to a Work-Related Injury: A Critique of Ohio's Most Recent Public Policy Exception

Effective Protection, Policy Appraisal and Trade Policy Reform

When the effective protection concept was first developed it was widely regarded as a key measure of the structure of protection and became widely deployed. It was however subject to a theoretical critique on the grounds that it was essentially a partial equilibrium measure, which could not be easily embedded in a general equilibrium framework. Notwithstanding this critique, the concept has con...

Secret-Public Storage Trade-Off for Broadcast Encryption Key Management