Author: Xiao Xiao Background of the Incident: The Sensitive Turn of a Tech Giant The career shift of former TSMC Senior Vice President Luo Wei-ren has stirred waves in the semiconductor industry. This key technical figure, who has received TSMC’s highest honors and holds over 1,500 patents, retired in July this year and joined Intel … Read more
Former SK Hynix employee Mr. Jin was sentenced to imprisonment for leaking CIS (CMOS Image Sensor, a semiconductor device that converts light into digital signals) technology. On October 31, Mr. Jin was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison for violating the Unfair Competition Prevention and Trade Secret Protection Act (leaking trade secrets … Read more
Case Summary176: Supreme People’s Court (2021) Supreme Court Civil Final 51 Key Information of the Case: 1.Suzhou He Guang Company was established onJuly 12, 2006, with a registered capital of 60.3377 million yuan. Its business scope includes research, design, development, and production of programmable user switches, access network system equipment, user access service managers, gateway … Read more
With each release of Python, new modules are added and better ways of doing things are introduced. While we have all grown accustomed to using good old Python libraries and certain methods, it is time to upgrade and take advantage of the new and improved modules and their features. Use Pathlib Instead of OS Pathlib … Read more
Conditions for Customer Lists to Constitute Trade Secrets By/Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court, Zhejiang Province Ma Hong (Second Instance Case Handler) Hong Jing 【Judicial Summary】 To constitute a trade secret, a customer list must reflect certain competitive advantages due to the specific customer names, contact details, and the unique transaction habits, intentions, and contents that differentiate … Read more
According to the official WeChat account of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, recently, the Intellectual Property Procuratorate of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate reported that the case of Zunpai infringing on Huawei’s HiSilicon chip technology trade secrets, guided by the Shanghai procuratorial authorities, was adjudicated on July 28. None of the 14 defendants appealed within ten days, … Read more
Special Notice Due to adjustments in WeChat mechanisms, click on “Instrument Information Network” at the top → “…” in the upper right corner → set as★ a star, otherwise you may not see our updates. On August 13, domestic semiconductor equipment leader Yitang Co., Ltd. (688729.SH) announced that it believes Applied Materials has illegally obtained … Read more
On August 6, #TSMC’s 2nm process suddenly leaked# became the top trending topic. On August 5, TSMC discovered that its advanced process chip manufacturing technology might have experienced a leak of trade secrets, and has taken action against the employees deemed responsible. Multiple insiders reported that several employees involved in leaking 2nm secrets have been … Read more
The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Economic Crime Investigation Corps recently reported that, under the command and deployment of the Ministry of Public Security and with the strong cooperation of the Jiangsu police, the Shanghai police successfully cracked a case of infringement of chip technology trade secrets, arresting 14 criminal suspects and seizing 7 servers … Read more
Word count: 2680, reading time approximately 14 minutes Basic Case Facts The plaintiff, Beijing Lingji Zhongsheng Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as “Lingji Company”), is a manufacturer of high-voltage control products, with its core product being a module power supply model ZD300-24S220N. Lingji Company alleges that its four former employees, Zhou, Li Long, Wei, and … Read more