Industrial Espionage and Intellectual Property Rights Protection: How Legal is it Legal
Kasim Musa Waziri, Timothy F. Yerima · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2011
Industrial espionage has been the name of the game for quite a while now. Different tactics are being utilized by companies to undermine attacks to their rivals in the business world. Industrial spies also take advantage of all the weak points in a company's security systems. Different sophisticated gadgets are utilized to carry out the espionage of intellectual properties. Those that are involved in espionage are heavily reaping at the detriment of those whose intellectual properties are stolen. However, an interesting dimension is that industrial espionage, in some cases has justification or say, legality. These are interesting issue to indeed look into.