For example, phishing emails are becoming increasingly elaborate and are now successfully used to obtain trade secrets, commercially sensitive information and intellectual property.
In a separate case, a California businessman was charged with attempted economic espionage, accused of trying to obtain trade secrets from DuPont for Chinese companies.
In Washington, a spokesman for the State Department, James P. Rubin, said, "U.S. intelligence agencies are not tasked to engage in industrial espionage or obtain trade secrets for the benefit of any U.S. company or companies.
Fiona McBride, a partner and trademark lawyer at Withers & Rogers, said: "This is a massive blow to Cadbury and has made it even more difficult for brand owners to obtain trade mark protection for use of a colour.
"U.S. intelligence agencies are not tasked to engage in industrial espionage or obtain trade secrets for the benefit of any U.S. company or companies," said a spokesman for the State Department, James P. Rubin.
"Trade flows have been crushed by the credit crunch, which has reduced demand for traded goods and services and made it more difficult for ex- porters and imports to obtain trade finance," Ian Shepherdson, chief United States economist of High Frequency Economics, wrote in a note.
Official requests for data have frequently been rebuffed, according to Kerr as was the case for the ICES Working Group on Eel, a scientific review body that tried, unsuccessfully, to obtain trade data that would have helped them piece together information about the eel supply chain.
Uber worked to unlawfully obtain trade secrets from [redacted].
A related complaint charges Monsanto-owned seed companies with poaching Garst employees to obtain trade secrets.
The min max approach is used to obtain trade-off solutions.
