Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched the "WIPO Lex Trade Secrets Case Law Collection" database on the official website, which includes 13 trade secret judgments rendered by Chinese courts, placing China alongside the United States with the largest number of entries.
The database currently contains 66 judgments from nine countries. China and the United States each account for 13 cases, followed by India with 12, Germany with 11, the Republic of Korea and Italy with 5 each, Brazil with 4, the United Kingdom with 2, and Tanzania with 1. The 13 judgments rendered by Chinese courts stem from the following: the "Natural Protease 3" Case, "Rubber Antioxidant" Case, "Automotive Chassis" Case, "Shenyang Blower" Case, "Dragon World" Project Code Case, "Carbomer" Case, "Vanillin" case, "Melamine" Case adjudicated by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People's Court; the "Reflective Material" Case by the Henan High People's Court; the "Eli Lilly" Case by the Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court; the Case of "Spoiler" of Unreleased Game Characters by the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court; the "Lentinan" Case by the Nanjing Intermediate People's Court of Jiangsu Province; and the "Intelligent Retrieval Algorithm" Case by Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court of Guangdong Province.
(Source: Official WeChat account of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China)