State Administration for Market Regulation, Provisions for the Protection of Trade Secrets (Draft for Comments)
国家市场监督管理总局商业秘密保护规定 (征求意见稿)
SAMR clarifies the “appropriate confidentiality measures” in trade secrets protection / Issued: 2025-04-25
Issued: April 25, 2025
Main contents: For the purposes of these Provisions, the phrase “rights holder taking appropriate confidentiality measures” means the reasonable confidentiality measures commensurate with factors such as the commercial value of the trade secret, and the difficulty in independently acquiring the same taken by the rights holder before the occurrence of an infringing act to guard against leakage of the information.
Where, under normal circumstances, the leakage of confidential information can be prevented and any of the circumstances set forth below applies, a finding that the