Why do technology companies often sign confidentiality agreements?

There has always been a confidentiality agreement between the brand and OEM. As the owner of intellectual property rights, brands should give their own design information, specification requirements, tool flow and so on. So that it can produce products that meet the requirements. The whole process is full of "leakage risk", and even big brands and OEMs often have similar disputes. In order to control the risk of leakage, it is more realistic for Apple to require suppliers to sign confidentiality agreements, and once violations are found, they will be fined 50 million US dollars. Of course, this clause does not always come into effect, otherwise everyone will not be able to cooperate. Apple's insistence on such a strict plan is aimed at creating deep fear for suppliers and finding a very clear legal basis after the incident, which is fatal!

Compared with previous years, Apple's mystery is much less. This is because mobile phone technology has been very popular after ten years of development, but the confidentiality agreement between Apple and its suppliers is still hanging there, which has spawned more and more business models. More and more technology companies begin to require employees and suppliers to sign confidentiality agreements.

Science and technology is the primary productive force, the core competitiveness of enterprises and the profit base of the whole industrial chain. Therefore, sober CEOs of science and technology enterprises pay great attention to technical secrecy, including design drawings, manuals, process tools and so on. Generally speaking, high-tech enterprises will first require employees to sign confidentiality agreements, which also contains another meaning: employees receive wages from the enterprise, and the property rights of the designed things are completely owned by the enterprise. During their tenure, employees develop skills and tools.

In addition to technical secrets, technology companies will also pay attention to the confidentiality of business information. The iPhone, for example, was strictly confidential until it was really born. The whole world didn't know that Apple had made an epoch-making product until the release conference in 2007 was a blockbuster. Later products, such as the rectangular glass design of iPhone4, the local gold of iPhone5s and the big screen of iPhone6, all gave people a very amazing feeling because of their good confidentiality. In addition, Apple's industrial chain is also very mysterious. Everyone keeps their production capacity, OEM price and even the models they produce strictly confidential. Obviously, this business information has no direct value to ordinary people, but it is very valuable to competitors. Knowing yourself and yourself is more conducive to gaining a psychological advantage at the negotiating table.