영업비밀 보호를 위한 비밀관리 요건의 연구 - 미국에서의 규정 및 법적 근거 이론을 중심으로 -

The requirement of reasonable efforts to protect trade secrets exists for being circumstantial evidence of other elements of a trade secret claim, proving the misappropriation of trade secret, preventing the misappropriation and reducing the judiciary enforcing fees, and notifying potential misappropriators what trade secrets are claimed. If so, the requirement of reasonable efforts is not trivial and it has its own role and function. Moreover, the digital world increases the need for the reasonable efforts. On the other hand, the revised bill of the Trade Secret Protection Act in my country has attempted to delete the requirement of reasonable efforts for strengthening the protection of trade secrets. However, this is problematic in that deleting the requirements ignores the purpose and function of them and moreover does not consider the nature of them. Therefore, it is required to reconsider the revised bill in the way that is best by referring the characteristics of the requirements.