{"id":1130,"date":"2021-02-26T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2022-01-06T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:41:56","slug":"chinas-supreme-peoples-court-awards-159-million-rmb-compensation-in-vanillin-trade-secret-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2021\/02\/chinas-supreme-peoples-court-awards-159-million-rmb-compensation-in-vanillin-trade-secret-case\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Supreme People&#8217;s Court Awards 159 Million RMB Compensation in Vanillin Trade Secret Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme People&#8217;s Court <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s?__biz=MzUzNjk5MDczOQ==&amp;mid=2247488242&amp;idx=4&amp;sn=f8cf18a2fa02fa7cf23bb7bc39255267&amp;chksm=faec978ecd9b1e98a9999d480337179c9d415510d92003b0d07117881869391ca263c2030cde&amp;xtrack=1&amp;scene=90&amp;subscene=93&amp;sessionid=1614400121&amp;clicktime=1614400181&amp;enterid=1614400181&amp;ascene=56&amp;devicetype=android-30&amp;version=27001543&amp;nettype=WIFI&amp;abtest_cookie=AAACAA%3D%3D&amp;lang=en&amp;exportkey=AXH2UvZgaWqbJWFI3%2FwMC%2BI%3D&amp;pass_ticket=kc4f07R0kb%2FNL7bhF3a4YlF%2FQE0dag0JwTYTOtPIhIaP7ln6kL7WZZsFnIy7JUZB&amp;wx_header=1\">announced<\/a> a verdict on February 26, 2021 against Wanglong Group Co., Ltd. awarding Jiaxing Zhonghua Chemical Co., Ltd. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zhhhg.com\/\">\u5609\u5174\u5e02\u4e2d\u534e\u5316\u5de5\u6709\u9650\u8d23\u4efb\u516c\u53f8<\/a>) and Shanghai Xinchen New Technology Co., Ltd. (\u4e0a\u6d77\u6b23\u6668\u65b0\u6280\u672f\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8) 159 million RMB (~$24.5 million USD) in trade secret case relating to the manufacture of <a href=\"https:\/\/pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/compound\/Vanillin#section=DSSTox-Substance-ID\">vanillin<\/a>, a food flavoring.\u00a0 This is the largest ever trade secret theft award reported in China.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs in this case, Zhonghua\u00a0 and Xinchen,\u00a0 \u00a0jointly developed a new process for producing vanillin, and protected it as a trade secret. Before the trade secret theft in this case, Zhonghua\u00a0 was the world&#8217;s largest vanillin manufacturer, occupying approximately 60% of the global vanillin market.<\/p>\n<p><span data-spm-anchor-id=\"0.0.0.i7\">In 2010, the former employee of Zhonghua and defendant Fu Xianggen received remuneration from the defendant Wanglong Group, he disclosed the vanillin trade secret to the supervisor of Wanglong Group and Ningbo Wanglong Technology Co., Ltd.\u00a0 <\/span>Since June 2011, Wanglong\u00a0 began to produce vanillin, becoming the third largest vanillin manufacturer in the world within a short period of time. In 2015, the defendant Xifu Lion King Dragon Spices (Ningbo) Co., Ltd. (\u559c\u5b5a\u72ee\u738b\u9f99\u9999\u6599\uff08\u5b81\u6ce2\uff09\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8) invested was established by Wanglong, and continued to use Wanglong&#8217;s vanillin production equipment to produce vanillin. After Wanglong illegally obtained the &#8220;vanillin&#8221; trade secret, they began to produce vanillin in June 2011 and continue to this day. The actual annual production of vanillin is at least 2,000 tons, accounting for 10% of the world market share. At the same time, the vanillin products produced by the defendants infringing the trade secrets involved in the case are sold in major markets around the world, and they are competing against the\u00a0 Zhonghua\u00a0 for customers and markets. Since Wanglong illegally obtained the technical secrets involved in the case, they had no substantial R&amp;D cost investment and were able to sell vanillin products at lower prices, which formed a significant impact on the original international and domestic markets of Zhonghua . As a result, the global vanillin market share of Zhonghua fell from 60% to 50%.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Zhonghua\u00a0 and Xinchen filed a lawsuit at the Zhejiang Higher People\u2019s Court, arguing that Wanglong Group Company, Wanglong Technology Company, Xifu Lion King Dragon Company, Fu Xianggen, and Wang Guojun infringed on the vanillin manufacturing trade secret. The plaintiffs requested the court to order the above-mentioned defendant to stop the infringement and compensate 502 million RMB. The court of first instance found that Wanglong Group Company, Wanglong Technology Company, Xifu Lion Wanglong Company, and Fu Xianggen stole trade secrets involved in the case, and ordered them to stop the infringement, and compensate 3 million RMB for economic losses and 500,000 RMB for costs related to stopping the infringement (e.g., court costs). At the same time, the court of first instance issued an injunction that that Wanglong Technology Company and Xifu Lion King Dragon stop using the trade secret related technology involved in the case to produce vanillin, but Wanglong Technology Company and Xifu Lion King Dragon did not actually stop their use.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the defendant Wang Guojun, all parties in this case refused to accept the first-instance judgment and appealed to the Supreme People&#8217;s Court. <span data-spm-anchor-id=\"0.0.0.i9\">In the second instance, Zhonghua\u00a0 and Xinchen\u00a0 reduced their claims for compensation to 177 million yuan (including reasonable expenses). <\/span>The Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People&#8217;s Court found in the second instance that Wanglong Group Company, Wanglong Technology Company, Xifu Lion King Dragon, Fu Xianggen, and Wang Guojun infringed all the trade secrets involved in the case. According to the economic loss related data provided by the rights holder, considering the serious circumstances of the infringement, the great commercial value of the trade secrets involved, and the refusal of the infringers such as Wanglong to stop their use of stolen trade secrets per the injunction, the judgment of the first instance was revoked and the judgment was changed. The infringers now must jointly compensate 159 million RMB to the trade secret right holder (including 3.49 million RMB for reasonable rights protection expenses). At the same time, the amount of damages claimed by the right holders in this case was only calculated until the end of 2017, and the law at that time did not provide for punitive damages. Therefore, punitive damages were not applicable to this case. However, the Supreme People\u2019s Court pointed out to the right holders that each defendant continued to infringement after 2018 and plaintiffs may seek additional relief in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, because the infringement of trade secrets involved in the case has bad circumstances and serious consequences, and may be suspected of criminal offences, the Supreme People&#8217;s Court shall transfer relevant suspected criminal evidence to the public security department for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The case number is \uff082020\uff09\u6700\u9ad8\u6cd5\u77e5\u6c11\u7ec81667\u53f7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The Supreme People&#8217;s Court announced a verdict on February 26, 2021 against Wanglong Group Co., Ltd. awarding Jiaxing Zhonghua Chemical Co., Ltd. (\u5609\u5174\u5e02\u4e2d\u534e\u5316\u5de5\u6709\u9650\u8d23\u4efb\u516c\u53f8) and Shanghai Xinchen New Technology Co., Ltd. (\u4e0a\u6d77\u6b23\u6668\u65b0\u6280\u672f\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8) 159 million RMB (~$24.5 million USD) in trade secret case relating to the manufacture of vanillin, a food flavoring.\u00a0 This is the largest ever trade secret theft award reported in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2021\/02\/chinas-supreme-peoples-court-awards-159-million-rmb-compensation-in-vanillin-trade-secret-case\/\" class=\"button\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,39],"tags":[],"coauthors":[22],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China&#039;s Supreme People&#039;s Court Awards 159 Million RMB Compensation in Vanillin Trade Secret Case - China IP Law Update<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2021\/02\/chinas-supreme-peoples-court-awards-159-million-rmb-compensation-in-vanillin-trade-secret-case\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China&#039;s Supreme People&#039;s Court Awards 159 Million RMB Compensation in Vanillin Trade Secret Case - China IP Law Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Supreme People&#8217;s Court announced a verdict on February 26, 2021 against Wanglong Group Co., Ltd. awarding Jiaxing Zhonghua Chemical Co., Ltd. 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