Trade Secret And Legal Protection

With the science and technology improvement, knowledge economy and globalization spring up, industries competition is more and more sharp. Among the enterprise business living conditions, except large quantity of fund and outstanding talent person, trade secret is becoming the focus of business competition. Trade secret gradually becomes the secret weapon in the fierce war of the business. Rely on this kind of information advantage, company can defeat the other competitors in the same profession. A trade secret is any information that can be used in the operation of a business or other enterprise and that is sufficiently valuable and secret to afford an actual or potential economic advantage over others. In addition, it is well established that a trade secret can exist in a combination of characteristics and components, each process, design and operation of which, in unique combination, affords a competitive advantage and is a protect secret. The significance of protecting trade secrets lies in enhancing the diversity and unique of market products and their services by providing proper respect and protection laws must carry out for such a social fact that the owner of trade secrets enable his products or services to be unique at a certain level and obtain appropriate economic interests via the methods which are unique and unknown to other people as well. Therefore, securing trade secrets, maintaining business ethics and competitive order and compromising social public interests are what protecting trade secrets aims for. Trade secret is a very important treasure to the modern enterprise in the market economy. Proper...