trade secret

business information kept secret to gain or maintain a competitive advantage
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trade secret

Summary

trade secret ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (889 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • trade secret is a type of intellectual property[2].
  • trade secret is a type of insider knowledge[3].
  • trade secret's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Trade secrets[4].
  • trade secret's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5].
  • trade secret's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6].
  • trade secret's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[7].
  • trade secret's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8].
  • trade secret's has characteristic is recorded as confidentiality[9].
  • trade secret's has characteristic is recorded as economic value[10].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include intellectual property[2] and insider knowledge[3].

Why It Matters

trade secret ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (889 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). trade secret. Retrieved April 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/trade-secret
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_trade-secret_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{trade secret}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/trade-secret}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic confidentiality, economic value
    Subclass of intellectual property, insider knowledge
    Topic's main category Category:Trade secrets
    Subclass of
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9524, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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