According to news, on the morning of the 20th of this month, the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau held a press conference to report on a recently uncovered case of infringement of trade secrets by a company in Shaoxing.
Back in December 2019, the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report from a company in Shaoxing saying that Chen Moumou, a resigned employee of his company, violated the contract signed with the company. “Confidentiality Agreement”, using the company’s trade secrets to produce a certain dye product at a chemical company in S Province, seriously infringing the rights and interests of the company, requiring the public security organs to investigate and deal with it in accordance with the law. It is understood that a company in Shaoxing spent more than one billion yuan to develop this dye product technology, and it took scientific researchers more than ten years to successfully develop it. This dye product is popular all over the country and even the world due to its advantages of being green, environmentally friendly and cost-effective. Once it is illegally infringed, it will bring immeasurable economic losses to the company.
After receiving the report, the Shaoxing Municipal Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it, mobilized capable police officers to set up a task force, fully carried out investigation and evidence collection, and concentrated its efforts on tackling the problem. In view of the difficulty of identifying trade secrets and determining the amount of major losses, the police on the task force clarified the direction and focus of the investigation through detailed understanding and detailed research on the product manufacturing process. Key evidence in each case was quickly fixed, and the timing of closing the case was determined. Gradually mature. In February 2021, three criminal suspects, including Chen Moumou, Zhang Moumou, and Gu Moumou, were successfully arrested, and a large number of infringing products and evidence involved in the case were seized on site.
After investigation, starting from November 2018, the criminal suspects Zhang and Gu knew that the criminal suspect Chen and a Shaoxing The company signed a “Confidentiality Agreement” and had the obligation to keep business secrets, but still induced it to provide business secrets and illegally obtained the technical information in its possession that had been kept confidential by a company in Shaoxing. The actions of the above three people gave the rights holder a company in Shaoxing Causing particularly serious consequences constitutes the crime of infringement of trade secrets.
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