Five years after its first amendment to adopt criminal
penalties, Taiwan's Trade Secrets Law, enacted and promulgated
in January 1996, is now preparing to embrace another amendment
initiated by legislators in 2018. The proposed amendment, currently
under deliberation by Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (equivalent to
a parliament in other democracies) with a good chance of being
passed this year, aims to achieve two objectives. Firstly,
confidentiality protective orders will be available in criminal
investigation proceedings to better safeguard trade secrets in
dispute. Secondly, but no less important, non-Taiwanese trade
secret owners will be accorded more complete protection than now,
almost to the extent of national treatment. The details are as
follows.
