Trade Secret/Proprietary Notice

Name: Trade Secret/Proprietary Notice
Creator: TestPattern Community
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Detects trade secret designations, proprietary information notices, and commercial-in-confidence markings.

Type: regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium confidence: keyword-based detection requires corroborative evidence for accurate identification.
Jurisdictions: global
Regulations: Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS
Data categories: intellectual-property, confidential
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 8

Should match

TRADE SECRET — Low-tier probe - designation without handling or ownership language
COMMERCIAL-IN-CONFIDENCE: restricted distribution; do not copy. — Medium-tier probe - notice plus restricted-use language
CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY: restricted distribution; property of Acme; unauthorised disclosure prohibited; return or destroy. — High-tier probe - restricted use plus ownership and confidentiality obligations
To: Director-General From: Principal Legal Officer Date: 12/08/2026 Subject: TRADE SECRET Our ref: LS2026-0412 This briefing sets out the TRADE SECRET for decision. — Populated doc record reaching the 75/85 structure gate

Proprietary blend of spices — Product-description sibling
The secret ingredient is love — Incidental prose
The public encyclopedia explains what a trade secret is. — Public commentary contains only the designation
Template example: CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY, restricted distribution, property of Acme, return or destroy. — Boilerplate template contains otherwise high-tier evidence
Policy guidance: this procedure explains how records about TRADE SECRET are handled, who may access them and how long they are kept. It contains no records about any person or system. — Policy guidance naming the topic without any record (discovery only)

Generic use of proprietary or secret in non-business contexts. Mitigation: Require legal/business marking keywords like do not distribute or Commercial-in-Confidence.