China's Jingdiao ruling tests boundaries of trade-secret protection
By MLex Staff ( September 17, 2026, 08:03 GMT | Comment) -- China’s top court has sent a strong deterrent message through its 380-million-yuan ($56 million) Jingdiao trade-secret ruling. But can plainly wrongful conduct justify treating tens of thousands of drawings covering multiple product lines as a single protected technical package without identifying the non-public information in that package or its link to the allegedly infringing products?China’s top court has sent a strong deterrent message through its 380-million-yuan ($56 million) Jingdiao trade-secret ruling. But can plainly wrongful conduct justify treating tens of thousands of drawings covering multiple product lines as a single protected technical package without identifying the non-public information in that package or its link to the allegedly infringing products?...
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