According to a report from the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Economic Crime Investigation Corps,Shanghai police recently successfully solved a case of infringement of chip technology trade secrets, arresting 14 suspects and seizing 7 servers that store infringing chip technology.After investigation, in February 2021, Zhang, Liu and others, the former executives of the rights company, set up a technology company after leaving their jobs in order to obtain illegal benefits.Inducing many R&D personnel of the original rights companies to switch jobs to his company by paying high salaries, equity inducements, etc.
They instructed these personnel to illegally obtain the company's chip technology information through excerpts, screenshots, etc. before leaving their jobs, plagiarize and apply it to the same type of chips designed by their own company, in an attempt to illegally make profits.
After identification,Forty technical points of the infringing chip technology are more than 90% identical to the key points of the copyright company’s trade secrets, constituting substantial identity.
The secret theft behavior of Zhang's gang caused the loss of the rights company's trade secrets. The loss to the rights company should be determined based on the commercial value such as the research and development cost of the trade secret and the income from implementing the trade secret.
On April 19 this year, the Shanghai police, with the strong cooperation of the Jiangsu police, launched a centralized network closing operation in Shanghai and Jiangsu. They successfully arrested 14 core members of the company involved, including Zhang, Liu and others, and promptly investigated and dealt with the infringing chips before they were put into mass production.
at present,The four main suspects, including Zhang and Liu, have been arrested by the police in accordance with the law on suspicion of infringement of trade secrets, and the remaining 10 suspects have been released on bail pending trial in accordance with the law.
It is reported that,The infringing company in the case may be Zunpai Communications. Its founder and CEO Zhang Kun, who is the Zhang in the case, has lost contact for several months.
The police remind: Enterprises should further strengthen internal supervision, improve confidentiality management systems, and strictly prevent the theft and leakage of core technology and trade secrets. If you find clues about relevant illegal crimes, you should report them to the public security organs in a timely manner.
Enterprise staff should strictly abide by professional ethics and confidentiality regulations. If they steal enterprise trade secrets without authorization, they must bear corresponding legal liabilities.