商业秘密反向工程的功能、关系与路径探析

The Function,Relationship and Path for Reverse Engineering of Trade Secrets

从各国立法与判例经验出发,中国通过司法解释明确肯定了商业秘密反向工程的合法性,但是立法或法释供给不足加剧了反向工程实施人行为的不确定性。由于在商业秘密侵权诉讼的司法实践中,反向工程与秘密性的关系最为密切,始终与商业秘密保护保持着一定的敏感关系。因此,必须在反向工程语境下规范分析秘密性的法律定位,厘定反向工程语境下秘密性的判断标准,调适商业秘密被反向后的属性争议,最终梳理并探析实施商业秘密反向工程的现实路径,以期保持商业秘密与公共领域平衡的动态性和连续性。

Based on the experience of legislation and case law in various countries,China has clearly affirmed the le⁃gality of reverse engineering of trade secrets through judicial interpretation,but the lack of supply of legislation or legal interpretation has also increased the uncertainty of the behavior of reverse engineering practitioners.As the relation⁃ship between reverse engineering and secrecy is the closest in the judicial practice of trade secret infringement litiga⁃tion,it always keeps a certain sensitive relationship with trade secret protection.Therefore,in the context of reverse en⁃gineering,we must standardize and analyze the legal position of confidentiality,determine the judgment standard of confidentiality,adjust the infringement disputes after trade secrets are reversed,and finally sort out and analyze the path disputes of implementing reverse engineering of trade secrets,in order to maintain the dynamic and continuity of the balance between trade secrets and public fields.