which of the following is a drawback to protecting information with only atrade secret?
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A trade secret usually receives legal protection even if its owner did not take reasonable precautions to keep it a secret.
A trade secret generally does not include devices and compilations of information.
A business may attempt to maintain a trade secret when it has a process or product that is not novel enough to receive patent protection.
A business may attempt to maintain a trade secret, but its misappropriation is not considered a breach of law.
Answer:
The difficulty with licensing your trade secret is your loss of direct control of it. The more extensively you license a trade secret, the more people who have it at greater distance from you, the less control of it you have, and the greater the opportunity for accidental disclosure and malicious misappropriation.