Preventing know-how from walking out the door in China: Protection of trade secrets Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

Protection of "know-how", and trade secrets, is a vexing problem for companies doing business in China. The primary threat to the disclosure of confidential information involves intentional actions of current and former employees, as well as the loss of trade secrets in the context of joint ventures or other arrangements in the business. Because China is still an important trading partner, and its domestic market has huge potential consumers, many companies are still in China. With this in mind, that the best practices of the company should take to protect their trade secrets to China in order to prevent competitors from getting an unfair advantage? Based on the analysis of Chinese trade secret law, practice guidelines, which are offered in this paper. Although there is no way for employers to "bulletproof" in the workplace from the loss of know-how thoroughly policies in accordance with modern trends in Chinese law will facilitate the arguments in support of the protection of commercial secrets. "Hide
by Marisa Anne Pagnattaro Source: Business Horizons 9 pages. Publication Date: July 15, 2012. Prod. #: BH481-PDF-ENG

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