The Extraterritorial Application of Chinese Trade Secret Criminal Law: With the Analysis of the Economic Espionage Act of the US

Abstract

Intellectual property, especially trade secret, is very important to countries nowadays. China’s relatively slow development of trade secrets protection under criminal law system failed to give extraterritorial effects to its rules and little research has paid attention to this important issue. Therefore, with two approaches implemented, comparative research and case study, this article aims to investigate the necessity for construction of extraterritorial application of Chinese trade secret criminal law and further provide suggestions through the analysis of The Economic Espionage Act of the US.