Publisher's Synopsis
For business investors in China, the legal handling of trade secrets is often crucial. However, initiatives are often complicated by a patchwork trade secrets protection system – pieced together haphazardly over the last two decades and drawing on disparate elements of competition law, contract law, employment law, and criminal law – that diverges in significant ways from global standards and corresponding regimes in other countries. Now at last interested parties can benefit richly from a thorough and practical approach to the subject. This detailed analysis of China’s trade secrets law 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.
