Definitions

As used in this chapter— 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— the term “misappropriation” means— disclosure or use of a trade secret of another without express or implied consent by a person who— at the time of disclosure or use, knew or had reason to know that the knowledge of the trade secret was— before a material change of the position of the person, knew or had reason to know that— the term “improper means”—