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Business and trade secrets are enterprise-related commercial or technical facts that are known only by a limited and determined number of people, that are not generally accessible or only with difficulty, and that owner does not intend to disclose beyond a circle of informed people, and in the secrecy of which the owner of the business has an economic interest. The facts in question must be business related. This excludes mere scientific secrets, as well as untrue statements. Those are not considered facts.
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Messner, J., Mosing, M.W., Schultes, R. (2017). Austria. In: Këllezi, P., Kilpatrick, B., Kobel, P. (eds) Abuse of Dominant Position and Globalization & Protection and Disclosure of Trade Secrets and Know-How. LIDC Contributions on Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46891-4_18
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