trade secret

noun

1. 商业秘密
   a secret piece of information that is known only by the people at a particular company
   1. The recipe for their drink is a closely guarded trade secret.
      他们饮料的配方是严格保守的商业秘密。

1. N-COUNT 行业秘密;商业机密
   A trade secret is information that is known, used, and kept secret by a particular firm, for example about a method of production or a chemical process.
   1. The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.
      这一聚合物的性质目前是个商业机密。
2. N-COUNT (尤指怎样做某事的)秘密
   A trade secret is a piece of knowledge that you have, especially about how to do something, that you are not willing to tell other people.
   1. I'd rather not talk about it too much because I don't like giving trade secrets away.
      我不愿就此多谈，因为我不想泄露秘密。

1. The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.
   这一聚合物的性质目前是个商业机密。
2. I'd rather not talk about it too much because I don't like giving trade secrets away.
   我不愿就此多谈，因为我不想泄露秘密。
3. A trade secret may include any information, process or technology that provides economic value to the secret holder that is not readily known to others.
   商业机密可能包括任何可给保守秘密者带来经济价值、但眼下尚不为其他人所知的信息、过程或者技术。
4. Startups are often damaged sometimes irreparably by over-zealous employees who believe they need to shortcut the development process by using confidential, trade secret information from their former jobs.
   热心过度的员工往往认为，他们可以通过使用前任工作中的商业机密信息，缩短开发过程，但是正是其此举毁了初创公司，而且有时造成了无可挽回的损失。
5. In2006, a former IBM ( IBM) employee sent his then new bosses at HP ( HPQ) a confidential IBM memorandum containing trade secret business plans and technology.
   2006年，一名前IBM员工就曾将一份机密级IBM备忘录，发给了他在惠普公司（HP）的新上司。备忘录中包括IBM的商业机密&商业计划和技术。
6. It's not unheard of for companies to treat their protocol as a trade secret.
   公司将自己的协议作为商业秘密，这种事情并不是没有听说过。
7. The agency reported a 60 percent increase in trade secret investigations from 2009 through 2013.
   该机构称，从2009年到2013年，有关商业机密的调查增加了60%。
8. The Justice Department is under significant pressure to bring more trade secret cases under the Economic Espionage Act.
   司法部正面临着查处更多违反《经济间谍法》的商业机密窃取案件的巨大压力。
9. And along with it our legal system adapted to foster growth through new and evolving copyright, patent, and trade secret regimes.
   随着这个行业的发展，我们的法律制度做出了相应改变，通过新的、不断发展的版权、专利权和商业秘密制度来促进这个行业的成长。
10. Reach an agreement on non-competition between employer and employee is vital to keep the trade secret.
    用人单位与劳动者签订竞业禁止协议是保护商业秘密的有效措施。
11. My aunt says that it's a trade secret how old she is.
    我的姑妈说她的年龄是个秘密。
12. The declaration form shall be concise, signed by the declarer or its authorized proxy and attached with an abstract which contains no trade secret or state secret.
    申报书内容应简明，并由申报人或其委托代理人签字。申报书应附一份不包含商业秘密和国家秘密的摘要。
13. Trade secret profit plays as innovator's rationality constraint for whether to accept patent contract.
    由此，商业机密利润构成了厂商是否接受专利契约的参与约束。
14. Others are associated with an elite craft, passed down from master to pupil like a trade secret.
    另外一些乐器则和精英技艺联系起来，一代代师徒相承，类似行业秘密般传递下去。
15. I guess you are not going to reveal your trade secret to me!
    我想你是不会把你这行的秘诀告诉我！
16. The ingredients of Coca-Cola are a trade secret.
    可口可乐的配方是一个商业机密。
17. The exact ingredients of Coca Cola are a trade secret.
    可口可乐的确切成分是一个行业秘密。
18. The rules on banning infringements of business secrets, for example, defined the "owner" of a trade secret as a "citizen, corporation, and other organization" and did not explicitly provide protection for foreign individuals or organizations.
    例如，《关于禁止侵犯商业秘密行为的若干规定》将商业秘密的“所有人”定义为“公民、法人和其他组织”，并没有明确规定对外国个人或组织提供保护。
19. This is our trade secret.
    这是我们的商业秘密。
20. Balance of Interest Between Commercial Franchise Information Disclosure and Protection of Trade Secret
    商业特许信息披露与商业秘密保护的利益平衡
21. Study and Comparison of Law about the Protection of Trade Secret between China and Canada
    中国与加拿大商业秘密保护法比较研究
22. Unlike patents and copyrights, there is no time limit on the life of a trade secret.
    不象专利和版权，商业秘密没有时间限制。
23. The doctrine specifies that any information that is valuable and secret can be protected as a trade secret.
    有观点认为任何有价值的、秘密的商业信息都应被视为商业秘密。
24. What they create is immediately appropriated by their employers, who claim the fruit of their intellect through the law of patent, copyright, trade secret and other forms of'intellectual property.
    他们（创造者）的雇主通过专利、版权、商业机密等等形式的“知识产权”的法律，不仅索取了他们的智力果实，还直接指派了它们的用途。
25. A trade secret may consist of any formula, device or compilation of information which is used in one's business.
    一个商业秘密可能由在某个公司使用的公式、设计及信息编辑等组成。
26. Trade secret law: protects confidential information that belongs to a business and gives that business a competitive advantage.
    商业机密法：保护属于某企业的机密信息并且给予该企业竞争优势。
27. In fact, with some drugs the most efficient manufacturing process is protected as a trade secret or by a separate patent, which may even be owned by a different company.
    事实上，某些药物制造过程中最关键的部分被作为商业秘密加以保护，或者单独申请了专利，甚至专利权有可能由另外的公司拥有。
28. On Good Faith Acquisition in Trade Secret: a Perspective of Law and Economics
    论商业秘密的善意取得&一个法经济学视角
29. Without written consent by Party A or legal requirements, Party B has permanent confidential obligation on the acquired Party A's trade secret, no matter how the validity state of this Agreement is.
    未经甲方书面同意或非应法律之要求，乙方对其取得的甲方的商业秘密负有永久保密义务，不论本协议效力状况如何。
30. The definition of the subject responsibility of the crime of invading trade secret is ambiguous in our criminal law.
    我国刑法关于侵犯商业秘密犯罪主观要件的规定容易产生歧义。

noun

1. a secret (method or device or formula) that gives a manufacturer an advantage over the competition