盈科锋线团队律师代理原告赢得商业秘密民事案件一审胜诉

近日,锋线团队陈豪辉律师、王承恩律师在代理深圳某公司向深圳市中级人民法院起诉两位前员工的商业秘密民事纠纷一审程序中,获得胜诉判决。

王某、詹某系原告前员工。其中,王某为负责研发工作的副总经理,詹某系研发人员,两人均与原告签署了保密协议。

原告对自主研发、用于控制所生产的设备正常运行的程序代码采取加密等保密措施,同时不允许员工未经申报,私自将个人笔记本电脑带入办公区域。詹某根据王某要求,将原告自主研发的程序代码在未加密的状态下复制到王某私自带入办公区域的笔记本电脑,被原告及时发现,并固定相关证据。

詹某根据王某要求,将原告自主研发的程序代码在未加密的状态下复制到王某私自带入办公区域的笔记本电脑,被原告及时发现,并固定相关证据。

一审法院认为,案涉程序代码构成原告的商业秘密,王某与詹某的行为致使案涉程序代码脱离了原告的控制,存在可能被披露和使用的风险,系以不正当手段获取原告商业秘密,构成共同侵权。

Mr.Chen Haohui and Mr.Wang Chengen,members of ACIES team,received a winning judgment from Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in the first instance of a civil dispute over trade secret recently. They represented a company in Shenzhen filing the litigation against two former employees.

Wang and Zhan were former employees of the plaintiff. Wang was the deputy general manager responsible for research and development work. Zhan was a R&D personnel. Both of them have signed Non-disclosure agreements with the plaintiff.

The plaintiff has taken confidentiality measures such as encryption for the independently developed program code used to control the normal operation of the produced equipment, and does not allow employees to bring personal laptops into the office area without declaration.

According to Wang’s request, Zhan copied the program code independently developed by the plaintiff in an unencrypted state to Wang’s laptop that he brought into the office area without authorization. The plaintiff promptly discovered this and fixed the relevant evidence.

Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court held that the program code involved in the case constitutes the plaintiff’s trade secret, and the actions of Wang and Zhan have caused the program code involved in the case to be out of the plaintiff’s control, posing a risk of disclosure and use, and obtaining the plaintiff’s trade secret through improper means. So that,Wang and Zhan constituted the joint infringement of plaintiff’s trade secret .

附一审判决书节选:

Excerpts from the First Instance Judgment

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