Article 122

Trade secrets consist of any type of commercial information that has independent potential or actual economic value or competitive value and — because it is generally unknown and cannot easily be obtained or ascertained through lawful means — in respect of which the lawful holder has put in place reasonable measures to preserve its confidentiality. Information such as all forms and types of engineering, economic, technical, scientific, commercial, or financial information — including patterns, plans, compilations, programs and formulas, designs and methods, tools, techniques, processes, software, identifiers, customer lists, methods of conducting business, production secrets, unregistered inventions and industrial designs — and any other type of information possessing the aforesaid conditions may be deemed a trade secret.