If he or his agent or employee claims the privilege, the owner of a trade secret has a privilege to refuse to disclose the secret, and to prevent another from disclosing it, if the allowance of the privilege will not tend to conceal fraud or otherwise work injustice.
Cal. Evid. Code § 1060
Trade Secret
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 184 Cal. App. 4th 210 - Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. (2010)
Most recently applied in 184 Cal. App. 4th 210 - Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. (April 2010)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.