                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                 CHAPTER 90--PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS
 
Sec. 1839. Definitions

    As used in this chapter--
        (1) the term ``foreign instrumentality'' means any agency, 
    bureau, ministry, component, institution, association, or any legal, 
    commercial, or business organization, corporation, firm, or entity 
    that is substantially owned, controlled, sponsored, commanded, 
    managed, or dominated by a foreign government;
        (2) the term ``foreign agent'' means any officer, employee, 
    proxy, servant, delegate, or representative of a foreign government;
        (3) the term ``trade secret'' means all forms and types of 
    financial, business, scientific, technical, economic, or engineering 
    information, including patterns, plans, compilations, program 
    devices, formulas, designs, prototypes, methods, techniques, 
    processes, procedures, programs, or codes, whether tangible or 
    intangible, and whether or how stored, compiled, or memorialized 
    physically, electronically, graphically, photographically, or in 
    writing if--
            (A) the owner thereof has taken reasonable measures to keep 
        such information secret; and
            (B) the information derives independent economic value, 
        actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not 
        being readily ascertainable through proper means by, the public; 
        and

        (4) the term ``owner'', with respect to a trade secret, means 
    the person or entity in whom or in which rightful legal or equitable 
    title to, or license in, the trade secret is reposed.

(Added Pub. L. 104-294, title I, Sec. 101(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3490.)
