3 Years, Formulating the Trade Secrets Protection System of a Giant R&D State-owned Entity

Brief introduction：
A R&D state-owned entity has more than 20 departments (including more than 10 R&D departments), and nearly 3000 staffs. Every day, it also has hundreds of people who are providing consulting service on site. The entity has to conduct R&D by its own staffs, and it has to work with many vendors as well. In addition, the headquarter of this entity has set several requirements on the management of Trade Secrets, so the Trade Secrets protection system of this entity shall also meet the requirements of the headquarter.

At the end of 2012, our team started to diagnose and analyze the current trade secrets management system of the entity. From 2014, our team conducted investigation of all the departments, designed the criteria on defining a trade secret, sorted out the trade secrets list, and formulated the protection measures, and so on. And finally, the project is accomplished in 2016.
Highlights：

• The key factor in establishing a Trade Secrets protection system is the combination of the specified macroscopic overall layout, and the detailed periodic implementation.

• The key factors in designing the criteria on defining Trade Secrets shall include: the criteria shall meet the characteristic of the entity’s industry; the criteria shall be easily to be used for the relevant staffs who have access to Trade Secrets; and the balance of confidentiality and efficiency.