Unfair competition and the safeguard of trade secrets

• Autor: Sosa Huapaya, Alex
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/15597
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/themis/article/view/15597
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Trade secret; Law of Supression of Unfair Competition; concurrent purposes; prohibited competition; Secreto empresarial; Ley de Represión de la Competencia Desleal; finalidad concurrencial; competencia prohibida

The Law of Supression of Unfair Competition, approved by Legislative Decree 1044, tries to avoid confusions about what is protected as a trade secret and what cases of misappropriation should be sanctioned.In this article, the author questions the interpretation and application that has beenconsistently employed, in many cases, to some of the terms contained in the aforementioned law.For that purpose, the author explains the meaning of the trade secret and other related terms, such as prohibited competition and concurrent purposes. He then proceeds to elaborate an analysis about the economic function of protecting trade secrets and what should be the correct application of the Law of Supression of Unfair Competition.