The problems with trade secret protection/overprotection in Asia

• Main Author: LIU, Kung-chung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Trade secrets; Non-competition; Economic espionage; Mobility; Breach of confidence; Asian Studies; Intellectual Property Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3890; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5848/viewcontent/ProblemsTradeSecretProtection_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Trade secret protection law has been an important complement to patent law and has gained increasing importance over the last three decades, not least in Asia. Major Asian countries are now at a crossroads, as some (Japan, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and China) are following the US approach to criminal...