On August 23, XPeng Motors responded to a former Apple employee who pleaded guilty to trade secret theft charges. The company said that the case has been going on for more than four years, XPeng did not know the details.
China’s Jiangsu province-based Wuxi Little Swan Co., Ltd. (小天鹅电器有限公司), a wholly-owned subsidiary of electrical appliance manufacturer Midea Group, on May 10 bought an insurance policy provided by China’s largest non-life insurer PICC Property and Casualty Company Ltd. (PICC P&C) to cover losses
China’s No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin Municipality in March ruled in favor of IHC Dredging Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (艾曲西疏浚技术装备（天津）有限公司), Royal IHC’s Chinese unit, in an action brought by it against its ex-employee Zhao for misappropriating its trade secrets.
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) on March 7 announced a national pilot scheme of innovative trade secret protection on its official website.
China’s Zhejiang High People’s Court in late December released a list of 8 representative cases of trade secret misappropriation of 2020 and 2021.
