🗎 The business that holds the trade secret is responsible for making every effort it can to keep it confidential. Employees can be required to sign agreements that protect trade secrets. In particular, when contractors or employees leave, it is important to make sure that they will not compete with the business after they leave, in addition to signing a confidentiality agreement. Those agreements are known as confidentiality, non-disclosure and non-compete contracts. If those agreements are violated, an employee might face penalties, along with damages to the company. However, it has to be kept in mind that those contracts should not restrict the contractor’s or employees’ rights to earn a living.

Derived from https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html