An Analysis to the Protection of Commercial Secrets and Strategies to Protect

As intangible property, commercial secrets are essential parts of intellectual property and are important measures to protect innovation. Possession and application of them is an important method for companies to obtain advantage in the fierce market competition. With its great potential economic benefits, commercial secrets have become the target of illegal infringement. However, some enterprises didn¿t have strong awareness of intellectual properties and the preventive measures are therefore inadequate. What¿s more, present laws are limited in the protection of commercial secrets. As a result, commercial secrets, as intangible property, were undermined. To actually protect commercial secrets, it is necessary to complete law protection system and to enhance its legislation. Meanwhile, companies themselves should recognize the importance of commercial secrets, complete preventive measures and establish mutual system to both protect their own commercial secrets and avoid infringing the legitimate rights and interests of the other.