On The High - Tech Industry In The Development Of Cross-strait Trade Secret Protection

With the rapid development of the High-tech industry, the trade secret become the new comer of the intellectual property family, which is different from the traditional intellectual property such as copyright, patent, trade marks. The most prominent trait of trade secret is its secrecy; other obvious traits that include wide coverage and sliding development are according to the special requirement of the rapid development and growth of the High-tech industry. At modern time, developed countries, which are good at the High-tech industry almost, protect the trade secret by law on different degree and reinforce the protection of law in order to protect their own High-tech industry as well as to maintain the economic competition. The market competition likes the war of intellect. The competition of the enterprise equate to the competition of the states as well as the developed countries equate to the countries who own the High-tech industry. The states aim at promoting the High-tech industry through enhancing the strength of economy and the enterprises ask for the protection actively for competition. It can be concluded the important relationship between the development of the High-tech industry and the protection of the trade secret. The essay comprise four parts: the first part stars with the basic theory of the protection of the trade secret, which including the settlement and reconstruction of the theory and describing the legal traits and ranges of the protection of the trade secret ; the second part mainly discuss the structure of the protection and Restriction of High-tech Know-how in China Mainland and Taiwan Law and the effect and impact brought to the High-tech in China Mainland and Taiwan by US the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 ;The last part involves the protection of the trade secret of High-tech Know-how in China Mainland and Taiwan Law and how to improve it as the end of the essay.