Article 17. Limits of familiarization with trade secrets in court

In the course of court proceedings, familiarization of the court and persons participating in the case with the trade secret is allowed in the part directly related to the merits of the dispute, in which the owner of the trade secret or the confidant acts as a plaintiff or defendant.

Unrestricted court access to trade secrets is permitted only in cases:

disputes between the owner of the trade secret or the confidant and state authorities;

upon the initiation of insolvency proceedings against the trade secret owner, or when the trade secret owner is liquidated or their activity is terminated;

disputes over inheritance rights when the object of inheritance is a trade secret;

disputes over the division of the spouses' common property when they or one of them is the owner of a trade secret;

of disputes between the owner of the trade secret and the confidant;

disputes between the founders of the owner of the trade secret and (or) the confidential.