Trade secret (responsibility for disclosure)

The article conceptually shows the importance of trade secrets in civil legal relations and the reasons for the need to protect it. It is noted that violations of trade secrets are subject to civil, disciplinary, administrative and criminal liability. The problem of recovery from the employee-guilty of disclosure of trade secrets, the amount of damage caused to them, equal to the direct actual damage, as it is not established the possibility to include the loss of profit in the damage. It is proposed to introduce the following methods of protection of the right to trade secrets: imposing obligations on a person who has received a trade secret by illegal means, to preserve the confidentiality of such information; confiscation or destruction by a court decision of material carriers on which information constituting a trade secret that was obtained illegally is stored.