Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)

Theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage threaten innovation, growth, development and investment of business entities and national economy globally. Civil remedies alone are insufficient to protect trade secrets from this growing threat. As a measure to address this issue, the TPPA requires si...

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Main Authors: Abd Jalil, Juriah, Mohamed, Duryana, Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin, Raja Mohd Ali, Raja Badrol Hisham, Hassan, Halyani
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/73810/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/73810/1/FULL%20REPORT%20ON%20FRGS%2016-0060-0505.pdf
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spelling iium-738102019-11-29T03:47:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/73810/ Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA) Abd Jalil, Juriah Mohamed, Duryana Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin Raja Mohd Ali, Raja Badrol Hisham Hassan, Halyani K Law (General) Theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage threaten innovation, growth, development and investment of business entities and national economy globally. Civil remedies alone are insufficient to protect trade secrets from this growing threat. As a measure to address this issue, the TPPA requires signatory countries to criminalize theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage. In Malaysia civil remedies under the common law of breach of confidence and employment contract, protects the owner’s right against any misappropriation of trade secrets. However there is no law to criminalize theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia. This research is undertaken to establish a legal framework to criminalize theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage apart from analyzing the protection of trade secrets in Malaysia 2019-08-05 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/73810/1/FULL%20REPORT%20ON%20FRGS%2016-0060-0505.pdf Abd Jalil, Juriah and Mohamed, Duryana and Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin and Raja Mohd Ali, Raja Badrol Hisham and Hassan, Halyani (2019) Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA). Portfolio. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
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Abd Jalil, Juriah
Mohamed, Duryana
Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin
Raja Mohd Ali, Raja Badrol Hisham
Hassan, Halyani
Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)
description Theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage threaten innovation, growth, development and investment of business entities and national economy globally. Civil remedies alone are insufficient to protect trade secrets from this growing threat. As a measure to address this issue, the TPPA requires signatory countries to criminalize theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage. In Malaysia civil remedies under the common law of breach of confidence and employment contract, protects the owner’s right against any misappropriation of trade secrets. However there is no law to criminalize theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia. This research is undertaken to establish a legal framework to criminalize theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage apart from analyzing the protection of trade secrets in Malaysia
format Monograph
author Abd Jalil, Juriah
Mohamed, Duryana
Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin
Raja Mohd Ali, Raja Badrol Hisham
Hassan, Halyani
author_facet Abd Jalil, Juriah
Mohamed, Duryana
Abdul Rahman, Nasarudin
Raja Mohd Ali, Raja Badrol Hisham
Hassan, Halyani
author_sort Abd Jalil, Juriah
title Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)
title_short Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)
title_full Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)
title_fullStr Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)
title_full_unstemmed Legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in Malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (TPPA)
title_sort legal framework for theft of trade secrets and corporate espionage in malaysia: adhering to the trans pacific partnership agreement (tppa)
publishDate 2019
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/73810/
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