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Gaming industry is a typical culture contents industry. In particular, creating the world's first online game on the market for online games by Korea's leadership is also holding area. However, with the development of gaming industry in the area of ​​intellectual property is becoming a problem. Trade secrets in the game produced can be a problem for the protection of game content embodied in the idea itself, the de facto information and known information through confidentiality agreements and obligations are protected by trade secret or whether it is valid. In fact, the de facto information, trade secrets and is believed to be lost province, because the requirements acknowledging that trade secrets is not valid. In terms of policy for the protection of trade secrets, institutional efforts are necessary, but excessive protection policy can be understood differently. Trade secrets and trade secret holders to disclose their contribution to the social protection through patents to choose thick or, according to the public without the contribution of social protection as trade secrets, whether the business judgment would have been selected based on. Nevertheless, trade secret protection for the excess carriers rather than weaken their commitment to technology development will be. Thus, the excessive protection of trade secrets protection system, rather than taking a voluntary conservation efforts on technology incidental to the holder's industrial competitiveness is to follow a policy judgment.