Trade Secrets 2026

CHINA – BEIJING

Trends and Developments Contributed by:

Ye Zhao and Liwei Jiang Jingtian & Gongcheng

Jingtian & Gongcheng was founded in the early 1990s and is a leading full-service Chinese firm with over 188 partners and 790 lawyers. Headquartered in Beijing, the firm maintains a strategic network across Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Sanya, Chongqing and Hong Kong,

providing comprehensive coverage of China’s major economic hubs. It specialises in intellectual property, cybersecurity, and data protection, seamlessly inte - grating these with core strengths in capital markets, M&A, and dispute resolution.

Authors

Ye Zhao is an attorney at Jingtian & Gongcheng and one of China’s leading authorities in intellectual property and antitrust litigation. Ye has successfully represented many of the world’s leading corporations in

Liwei Jiang is an attorney at Jingtian & Gongcheng and previously served in four Beijing courts for 12 years, presiding over thousands of IP cases, including landmark rulings for the Supreme People’s Court. Since 2016,

various complicated intellectual property infringement, antitrust and unfair competition cases. In the field of trade secrets, he has acted for CATL against TAFEL, represented Bitmain in a high-stakes dispute against MicroBT, and handled Alibaba’s trade secret litigation against Anji Vannuo.

he has provided elite litigation and compliance services. His trade secret expertise includes securing tens of millions in settlements for a central SOE and winning a critical “away-court” judgment for GobiGa, enabling its successful IPO. Liwei also secured a CNY528 million settlement for Yipinhong and a final non-infringement victory for Suzhou magAssist.

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