The criminal punishment for trade secret theft and economic espionage in Taiwan

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

8-2021

Abstract

By resorting to (increased) criminal punishment, it is hoped to deter real perpetrators from committing trade secret theft and economic espionage, while at the same time maintains an environment friendly towards employee mobility and the setting up new start-ups. The legal issues involved are how to determine “with the intension of using the trade secret abroad” in order to find economic espionage, to what extent shall corporates be held liable for employees who have taken their former employers’ trade secrets inadvertently or carelessly along with them?

Keywords

criminal punishment, trade secret, with the intension of using the trade secret abroad

Discipline

Asian Studies | Criminal Law | Intellectual Property Law | Science and Technology Law

Research Areas

Innovation, Technology and the Law

Publication

Trade secret protection: Asia at a crossroads

Editor

Kung-Chung Liu & Reto Hilty

First Page

232

Last Page

243

ISBN

9789403530536

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

City or Country

Alphen aan den Rijn

Additional URL

https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/permalink/65SMU_INST/naremq/alma99517041802601

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