Trade secret basics for people who don't want to get sued

Workers who leave a job to work for a competitor can be at risk of a lawsuit from their former employer claiming they are stealing trade secrets. Attorney Tait Graves explains what a trade secret is -- and the red flags that lead companies to suspect trade secret misappropriation. Featuring University of Oregon joint degree student Amber Lesher.

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What if an employee of a company takes home sensitive high value files of their job and it ends up in storage and it goes abandoned at a location it was stored at due to failure to pay the storage due a variety of reasons from neglect to death. Then a new person takes possession of the abandoned materials not really even knowing its value but wants to sell it. For this new person would it be unlawful? Or is it only the use of the trade information from the final owner that has to be worried about being sued? Or is there even a time limit the trade secret has before its free info for all? Thanks