0 a piece of information about a product that is known only to the particular company that makes it: --
1 a piece of information about a product that is known only to the company that makes it: --
2 a valuable piece of information about a product, project, etc. which is known only to people in the company involved, and which is kept secret from competitors: --
He was fired for revealing the company's trade secrets to a competitor.
The amendment would limit the criteria to disclosure of information about a trade secret.
There is an anxiety about what is and what is not a "trade secret" and how intellectual property and copyright fall under it.
Apparently, any trade secret, or anything else that can be brought out, is to have no sanctity whatever.
The acknowledgement of the existence of commercially confidential information does not of itself divulge any trade secret.
Clause 71 refers to prejudicing to some unreasonable degree some private interest by disclosing information about a manufacturing process or trade secret.
But it would leave, of course, the question of a trade secret.
It is unacceptable to use the trade secret argument when the health of people should be paramount.
Moreover, information on the identification of chemicals was classified as a trade secret.
