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Trade Secret

Explanation: A trade secret is any privileged information that gives a person or organisation an edge above others in the same line of business.

Trade secret includes method of sales, distribution pattern, customers database that is not known to any other person.

Trade secret by law is all forms of economic, financial, scientific, business and technical information not known to any other person about a product or service.

It includes, patterns, ideas, process, method, design, prototype, codes, programs,  plans and program device.

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