FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of July 29, 2004 No. 98-FZ

About trade secret

Accepted by the State Duma on July 9, 2004

Approved by the Federation Council on July 15, 2004

Article 1. Purposes and coverage of this Federal Law

1. This Federal Law governs the relations connected with establishment, change and the termination of the mode of trade secret concerning information which has the real or potential commercial value owing to uncertainty to her third parties.

2. Provisions of this Federal Law extend to information which is trade secret irrespective of type of the carrier on which it is fixed.

3. Provisions of this Federal Law do not extend to the data carried in accordance with the established procedure to the state secret to which regulations of the legislation of the Russian Federation on the state secret are applied.

Article 2.

Voided according to the Federal Law of the Russian Federation of 12.03.2014 No. 35-FZ

Article 3. The basic concepts used in this Federal Law

For the purposes of this Federal Law the following basic concepts are used:

1) trade secret - the mode of confidentiality of information allowing its owner to increase under the existing or possible circumstances the income, to avoid unjustified expenses, to keep market position of goods, works, services or to receive other commercial benefit;

2) information which is trade secret - data of any nature (production, technical, economic, organizational and others), including about results of intellectual activities in the scientific and technical sphere, and also data on methods of implementation of professional activity which have the real or potential commercial value owing to uncertainty to their third parties to whom the third parties have no open entry legally and concerning which the owner of such data introduces regime of trade secret;

3) ceased to be valid

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