September 2026

Before You Leave: How China’s Courts Have Changed the Definition of Trade Secret Theft — And What This Means for Foreign CompaniesNew!!

For many years, the common belief about protecting trade secrets—both in China and internationally—was straightforward: if an employee copies confidential information but neither shares it with a competitor nor uses it, at worst they have broken company rules but not committed a legal offense. The logic was that without sharing, no information leaks; without use, […]