Chapter 2 of the Commercial torts Law
-1999 deals with protect against misappropriation of trade
secrets . Trades secrets are considered as non-registered
intellectual property. In other words, it is not possible or
worthwhile for the owner of a trade secret to register it. This
kind of protection is an alternative to patent protection. The most
famous example is that of the Coca-Cola company because the formula
of the beverage is a trade secret. The main advantage of the trade
secrets protection is that this protection is not limited in time
and it's not necessary to invest significant financial
resources, in contrast to patents.
The main difference between the laws of trade secrets and the
laws of copyrights and the laws of patents is that copying by
reverse engineering constitutes a prohibited act according to the
latter, but according to the law of trade secrets it is usually
permitted and is defined in section 6 (c) as an
exception to the misappropriation of a
