The Vice-GM of a Giant Japanese-invested Company was sentenced into jail for infringing his former employer’s trade secrets, by stealing more than 100,000 pieces of drawings and producing the same products

Brief introduction：
Company R found its vice-GM Ping X, a Japanese, had established Company F in Anhui province. Company F produced and sold the same products as Company R.

In 2014, Company R entrusted our team to deal with the case for the . After analyzed characteristics of this case, our team formulated a comprehensive plan, and implemented this plan step by step. After we had collected the relevant evidence, and got the authentication report, we had also prepared all the other relevant documents for the police. In 2015, the case was accepted by the Economic Criminal Investigation Department of Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, and all the criminal suspects were under arrested.

In 2016, the Shanghai Intellectual Property People’s Court heard the case, which is a trade secrets infringement criminal lawsuit. Finally, the defendants were sentenced to different years in jail.
Highlights：

• Facing thousands pieces of drawing, it is very important to define which information in the drawings shall be deemed as Trade Secrets. We have defined Trade Secrets based on several factors, such as how do the relevant techniques have affect the competition advantage, the possibility on conducting the comparison assessment, the risks on disclosing the relevant Trade Secrets, and so on.

• The key point is to collect, make good use of, and arrange the evidence link appropriately.