Is it a crime to disclose patents?

If a party violates the agreement or the patentee's requirements on keeping trade secrets, such as disclosing, using or allowing others to use the trade secrets in his possession, thus causing great losses to the holder of trade secrets, it is a crime and constitutes a crime of infringing trade secrets.

legal ground

Article 2 19 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Whoever commits one of the following acts of infringing on business secrets, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined:

(1) Obtaining the business secrets of the obligee by improper means such as theft, bribery, fraud, coercion or electronic intrusion;

(2) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets of the obligee obtained by means of the preceding paragraph;

(3) disclosing, using or allowing others to use the business secrets in their possession in violation of confidentiality obligations or the requirements of the obligee to keep business secrets.

In the acts listed in the preceding paragraph, anyone who knowingly obtains, discloses, uses or allows others to use the trade secret shall be regarded as infringing on the theory of trade secret.

The obligee mentioned in this article refers to the owner of the business secret and the user of the business secret with the permission of the owner.