侵犯商业秘密罪的立法变革与司法适用

Legislative Reforms and Judicial Application of the Crime of Infringing Trade Secrets

商业秘密作为知识产权的重要组成部分,越来越受到国家的关注和保护。随着互联网技术的发展,获取商业秘密的不法手段也日趋多样化,尤其出现了电子侵入的不法手段。立法者注意到了行为方式的多变性和危害性,通过《刑法修正案(十一)》对刑法第二百一十九条做出了调整,这一调整使得侵犯商业秘密罪的规制范围得以扩大,为打击侵犯商业秘密行为、确保商业领域的信息安全提供了更充分的法律依据。但是,在司法适用中,案情的不同也会导致审判者对法条理解和适用上的差异。在当前国家打击知识产权犯罪的政策指引下,在衡量法律的司法效果、社会效果等多重因素后,应当对商业秘密的范围做一定限制的解释,同时应当采取最广义论的观点来理解间接侵犯商业秘密行为所要求的“明知”。

More and more attention and protection has been given to the trade secrets,an important part of intellectual property rights.With the development of internet technology,the illegal means of obtaining trade secrets are becoming more and more diversified.In this context,legislators have noticed the variability and harmfulness of behavior,and adjusted Article 219 of the Criminal Law through the Criminal Law Amendment 11.This adjustment expands the scope of the crime of infringing trade secrets,and provides a stronger legal basis for combating the act of infringing trade secrets and ensuring information security in the commercial field.However,in the judicial application,different cases will lead to different outcomes because of the variety of judges’understanding and application of the law.There are still different views in the theoretical and practical circles on how to understand the“knowing”of the modified indirect infringement.It is necessary to expand the interpretation of the current national policy to combat intellectual property crimes.