Research project Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union
A research project on how EU private international law affects the protection of trade secrets in cross-border disputes.
The research project has resulted in the publication of a comprehensive book titled Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, October 2023). The volume offers an in-depth examination of how EU private international law interacts with the protection of trade secrets in cross-border contexts.
Project description
Cross Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law (Surrey: Edward Elgar October 2023)
In today’s data-driven economy, it is essential for companies to protect their trade secrets against unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure; with the ease of digital communications, employee migration and international trade, trade secret violations now often occur across national borders. This book examines how trade secret protection can differ across jurisdictions, where trade secret holders can bring proceedings, and which country’s law is applicable.
The book provides a European perspective, analysing how the EU’s rules on jurisdiction and applicable law relate to the EU’s wider objectives on encouraging cross-border innovation activities. Using common trade secret scenarios as a springboard for analysis, this book questions whether EU private international law rules can be interpreted to facilitate the objectives of the EU Trade Secret Directive and in doing so it sets out a detailed examination of both regimes.
Providing a clear and comprehensive perspective on a complex area of law, this book will be valuable for scholars of private international law, intellectual property law and EU law. Due to its practical approach to analysis, it will also be useful for policy makers and legal practitioners seeking information about uncertainties that exist in the current law.
Project members
Project managers
Lydia Lundstedt
Universitetslektor, docent
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News and book reviews
- Michael Bogdan, Lundstedt, Lydia: Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law. Cheltenham et al. 2023, Lundstedt, Lydia: Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union. Jurisdiction and Applicable Law. Cheltenham et al. 2023
- Lukas Vanhonnaeker i Revue Critique de droit international privé (Dalloz Revues, Juli - September 2024), dalloz-revues.fr
- Ulf Maunsbach i Svensk Juristtidning (SVJT) 2024, SvJT 2024 s. 552 | SvJT
- Antonios Baris i bloggen The IPKatt, Book Review: Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union - Jurisdiction and Applicable Law - The IPKat (ipkitten.blogspot.com)
- Frantzeska Papadopoulo, Lydia Lundstedt, Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law, Elgar Monographs in Private International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing October 2023) ISBN: 978 1 03531 510 9 Extent: 334 pp, SIPLR2023nr2_5_Papadopoulou-rec.pdf
- Book by Lydia Lundstedt on trade secrets in PIL – Conflict of Laws
- Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes in the European Union: Jurisdiction and Applicable Law – EAPIL