{"id":754,"date":"2023-03-09T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/wp\/?post_type=column&#038;p=754"},"modified":"2023-05-02T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:38:11","slug":"754","status":"publish","type":"column","link":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/column\/754\/","title":{"rendered":"Protection of Trade Secrets in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Lexology_Article_CLO_Mar2023_E.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What examples of \u201ccompany property\u201d would you give if a friend or a colleague asked you to do so? Typically, the term \u201ccompany property\u201d brings to mind assets such as real property, movables and human capital. Indeed, these are important parts of properties a company owns. But there is another type of asset that should not be overlooked: \u201cinformation.\u201d Information relating to a company\u2019s business operations or technologies plays a significant role in making company competitive in the marketplace and differentiating it from other companies. This \u201cinformation\u201d normally refers to confidential information, and typically contains the company\u2019s most valuable asset \u2013 trade secrets.It is particularly important for companies to understand how to protect their trade secrets, especially by using the available legal tools and mechanisms. To facilitate such understanding, this article comments on the definition of trade secrets under the applicable law and several types of measures that may be available in cases of unauthorized leakage of trade secrets.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-754","column","type-column","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/column"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/column"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clo.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}