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ARTICLE · 02 MAY 2025

China SAMR Draft Trade Secret Protection Provision 2025

Thanks to the heads-up from Aaron Wininger of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. , the China State Administration for Market Regulation SAMR announced on 25 April 2025 another draft trade secret protection provision at the link below:

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Thanks to the heads-up from Aaron Wininger of Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. , the China State Administration for Market Regulation SAMR announced on 25 April 2025 another draft trade secret protection provision at the link below:

https://www.samr.gov.cn/hd/zjdc/art/2025/art_0eb6d32af2e3486e98a8543d5447a314.html

The deadline to comment is 25 May 2025. This provision has an earlier draft in 2020 at the link below:

https://www.moj.gov.cn/pub/sfbgw/lfyjzj/lflfyjzj/202009/t20200903_150818.html

Comparing with the 2020 draft, the current 2025 draft has many revisions, in my view making the provisions clearer and more concise, but of course there are still issues remain, and new issues arise.

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