A new direction for calculating damages for trade secret infringement

• Main Author: LIU, Kung-chung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Trade secret infringement; damages; R&D costs; Taiwan; Asian Studies; Intellectual Property Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3894; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99517041802601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Trade%20secret%20protection:%20Asia%20at%20a%20Crossroads&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In addition to the usual ways of calculating damages for the owner of an infringed trade secret, i.e., his actual loss or the infringer’s net profits as a result of infringement, whether and under what circumstances can courts resort to R&D costs as a proxy for damages, if at all? How may courts...