The Protection Of Trade Secrets In China

For many business investors in China, the legal handling of trade secrets is crucial. However, initiatives are often complicated by a patchwork trade secrets protection system, developed rapidly over less than twenty years, that diverges in significant ways from global standards and corresponding regimes in other countries, and that incorporates elements of competition law, contract law, employment law, and criminal law.

Now for the first time, in this detailed analysis of China’s trade secrets law, corporate counsel and international lawyers have a thorough and practical approach to the subject. The Protection of Trade Secrets in China provides in-depth information and guidance on such important factors as the following:


the current framework of China’s trade secrets law, its past development and its ongoing trends;
legal comparison of China’s trade secrets law with various international, regional, and national schemes;
what constitutes trade secrets infringement in China and what remedies are available; and
the legal interaction in China between employment relations and trade secrets protection.