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Dr. Guang Li, LL.M. (Cornell / Freiburg)

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Dr. Guang Li, LL.M. (Cornell / Freiburg)

Salary Partner

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21 October 2020

Protecting your trade secrets in employment relationships under Chinese law: a practitioner's checklist

  • Briefing

Trade secrets are crucial to global competition today, and often determine its outcome.

We've prepared a checklist that summarises the major issues, general rules and legal basis for protecting trade secrets in Chinese employment relationships, including:

  • key legal definitions you need to know
  • confidentiality agreements and non-competition agreements with employees, and
  • consequences, remedies and statute of limitations when an employee or a former employee infringes upon trade secrets of their employer or former employer.

Download the checklist

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