论知识经济时代商业秘密保护主流理论:保密关系学说与财产权论

On the Prevailing Theories of Trade Secret Protection in the Knowledge and Economic Era: Theory of Secret Relation and Theory of Property Right

在探究商业秘密保护制度的形成及发展进程方面,国外及国内的许多学者与法官曾先后提出了调整商业秘密关系的诸多理论,它们对当代商业秘密保护制度的建立与完善起到了巨大促进作用,然而,在这些众多的理论中,最能准确把握商业秘密特征,对西方国家商业秘密法律制度的形成最具影响力的则当属商业秘密的"财产权理论"和"保密关系理论"。深入考察保密关系学说和财产权论的形成及发展轨迹,将有助于了解目前英美及其他国家商业秘密保护制度。

In exploring the formation and development of trade secret protection system, many experts and judges at home and abroad have put forward many theories concerning the regulation of trade secrets, which has played significant role in establishing and improving the contemporary trade secret protection systems. However, of the many theories, 'theory of property right' and 'theory of secret relation' have been mostly influential to the formation of the trade secret legal system of the western countries. To probe into the theory of secret relation and the formation and development of the theory of property right will be helpful to understand the trade secret protection system of Britain, the United States, and other countries.