We will share our trade secrets from time to time on access to "grey literature" when doing research on trade secrets.

M. C. Debachere has written that it is easier to describe, rather than define grey literature. Collectively the term covers an extensive range of materials that cannot be found easily through conventional channels such as publishers, "but which is frequently original and usually recent" (Debachere 1995,94). Peter Hirtle in Broadsides vs. Grey Literature defines it as: the quasi-printed reports, unpublished but circulated papers, unpublished proceedings of conferences, printed programs from conferences, and the other non-unique material which seems to constitute the bulk of our modern manuscript collections (Hirtle 1991).

Much trade secret literature is grey as it is produced by CLE vendors and NGOs that don't readily vend their materials. The Web is a prime source of grey literature. Today's tip is that you can find thousands of Power Point slide shows that discuss trade secret with the click of your mouse. Go to Google. Click on Advanced Search. Type in your key words. Then, magic. Click on File Format => only return results of the file format => Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt). Try it, you'll like it.