Start-Up Companies and Venture Capital

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Economic Espionage Act of 1996

Brian JM Quinn

To the extent corporate trade secrets are the object of foreign theft, that act may also fall under the auspices of the Economic Espionage Act which penalizes thefts of trade secrets for the benefit of foreign actors. 

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