Employees, Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants in Greater China

Employees, Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants in Greater China
Kung-Chung Liu and Xiuqin Lin

ISBN 978-90-411-8379-8
Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands

The growing business relationship both in terms of cooperation and competition across the Taiwan Strait made possible by the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) of 2009 leads to the pressing need to protect trade secrets crossstrait Increasingly, the mobility of expertise from Taiwan to Mainland China has emerged, though Taiwan imposes a strict control on the inlow from Mainland China. Poaching (uprooting and acquiring) employees from competitors based in Taiwan happens.