商業秘密民刑訴訟獨立性問題探討--由"香蘭素案"引發的思考

Probe into Independence of Trade Secret-Related Civil and Criminal Proceedings--Reflections on the Vanillin Case

一、問題的提出長期以來,“先刑後民”是商業秘密司法保護的常態,即商業秘密權利人通常在侵犯商業秘密罪刑事案件審結後,再向法院提起侵害商業秘密民事賠償訴訟,請求法院判令被告承擔民事賠償責任。例如,最高人民法院於2020年"月24日審結的“卡波案”1就是“先刑後民”的典型案例。該案中,商業秘密權利人向法院提起民事訴訟之前。

I.Background For a long time,it has become a convention that criminal proceedings go before civil proceedings("criminal proceedi ngs first")in judicial protect!on of trade secrets,that is to say,after the closing of criminal cases on the crime of trade secret infringement,trade secret owners then file civil lawsuits for damages.For instance,the Carbomer case 1 concluded by the Supreme People's Court on 24 November 2020 was a typical one where the above-mentioned sequence was followed.