商业秘密国际保护探析

随着知识经济向纵深发展 ,商业秘密的作用日益凸显 ,世界上各主要国家和地区都建立起商业秘密法律体系 ,综合运用各种手段加大对商业秘密的保护力度。不仅如此 ,2 0世纪下半叶 ,一些国际公约也陆续对商业秘密法律保护作出规定 ,商业秘密保护出现了国际化、全球化的趋势 ,而《与贸易有关的知识产权协议》对商业秘密的界定则把这一趋势推向最高潮 ,与经济知识化和全球化的大潮正相因应。我国应顺应这一潮流 ,完善相关立法 ,提高对商业秘密的保护水平

Probe into the International Protection of Trade Secrets

With the advent of knowledge economy, the trade secret attracts more and more attentions due to its high business profit and market value.By the end of the last century,not only all the main countries in the world have established their legal protection system of trade secrets,but also many International Conventions have come to affirm trade secret as a type of intellectual property right,which leads to the globalization trend of trade secret protection,among which the related clauses concerning the trade secrets in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights have pushed the above globalization trend to the utmost,which is exactly in consistency with the knowledge economy and its globalization trend. Therefore,our country should follow the above trend and try to raise the legal protection level by improving China's Trade Secrets Law.