Kingsbury, Anna2016-11-0620162016-11-062016Kingsbury, A. (2016). The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the protection of commercial confidential information and trade secrets in New Zealand law. European Intellectual Property Review, 38(4), 237–245.1749-5083https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10709After many years in which trade secrets law received relatively little attention internationally, we are now seeing a flurry of activity aimed at harmonising trade secret protection, combined with efforts to increase the level of protection provided by law. Internationally, there have been a number of initiatives to increase trade secret protection, driven by concerns about economic espionage, especially foreign economic espionage. ¹This article is about one such initiative, the trade secret provisions in the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to which New Zealand is a party, and the impact these provisions will have on New Zealand law.application/pdfenThis is an author’s submitted version of an article published in the journal: European Intellectual Property Review. Used with permission.criminal liabilityNew Zealandplurilateral trade agreementstrade secretsJournal Article