Is it infringement for employees to apply for technology patents after leaving their jobs? Employees are not among the inventors.

If the technology belongs to the trade secret stipulated in the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, that is, it meets the three requirements of trade secret, not just the trade secret advocated by the unit itself, and the original contract signed by the employer and the employee clearly stipulates the intellectual property rights, it may be considered as infringement.

If the technology does not conform to the trade secrets stipulated in the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, or it is expanded in trade secrets (that is, beyond the scope of the original trade secrets), it cannot be simply identified as infringement. It should be agreed according to the specific situation.

In this case, it will cost a lot of time and money to go to court.