China

Discover the growing importance of trade secrets in a patent-dominated field:

- Implications for companies dealing with proprietary technologies

• “Vanillin Case”
○ Understand how infringement occurred
○ How the courts determine damage
○ Subsequent impact on trade secret implications in China

• “Rubber Antioxidants Case”
○ Determine the nature of the Trade Secret
○ Legal consequence of employee breach of confidentiality
○ Legal outcome and people’s supreme court’s attitude towards Trade Secret cases such as Automobile Chassis case; 2023, SPCIP Civil Final No. 1590