Legal Reflection to The Ilegal Obtaining of Trade Secret; Critique and Examination of the Judgment No. 9109970223801715 Issued on 10/03/2013 by Court of Appeal of Tehran No. 38

Electronic trade secrets are data messages that have independently the economic value but are not available to the public, and a reasonable effort should be made to protect and safeguard them. In the absence of any of these features, the relevant message data will lose its commercial head feature and will not enjoy the legal protections that exist for such message data. Proof of the existence of these conditions in the case of any message data is on the burden of the owner who claims that his business has been misused, thus resulting in criminal or legal liability for the defendant. The Electronic Commerce Law adopted in 2003 defines trade secrets and then a number of crimes committed against these secrets, and determines its punishment. In this research, the concept and application of this trade secret has been examined, which has been criticized from aspects such as the concept of economic value and the role of having a secret in criminal protection.