Planned innovations in the protection of trade secrets

The plan­ned law “for the protec­tion of busi­ness secrets” (GeschGehG) is to newly regu­late essen­tial key points. The most important novelty: for the first time, the term “trade secret” is defi­ned by law. For compa­nies, one inno­va­tion in parti­cu­lar will require action. The amend­ment provi­des for protec­tion of trade secrets in the future only for those secrets for which appro­priate secu­rity measu­res can be demons­tra­ted. Stron­ger protec­tion for whist­le­b­lo­wers is also provi­ded for in the new law.