Legal Protection Towards Trade Secret Ownership and Brands of Salted Fish Production

Abstract

This research is motivated by the unregistered trade secret and brand of Desa Jangkar salted fish, which allows these trade secrets and brands to be stolen, imitated, and claimed by others. This will undoubtedly be detrimental to business actors in the salted fish product in Jangkar Village, Jangkar District, Situbondo Regency. Legal protection is needed for holders of trade secrets and salted fish brand products in Jangkar Village. Research that uses a normative method with a statutory approach and a conceptual approach results in findings, namely a form of legal protection for holders of trade secrets and brands of salted fish products, including internal legal protection in the form of making agreements/contracts between trade secret and trademark holders and workers, and legal protection. External in the form of registration of trade secrets and brands of the Jangkar Village salted fish.