Know-how is the core asset of an enterprise and the foundation to maintain its competitiveness in the market, so the protection and management of know-how is the most important part of the daily management of an enterprise. Even so, know-how disputes often occur after technicians’ departure, the main reason behind is that the technology can bring great economic value, making technicians always try to breach the obligations they owned to their ex-employers, and even to infringe others’ know-how illegally. Therefore, this article will mainly introduce methods of “remedies after incidents”, i.e., the follow-up investigation on the application of the know-how known to departing technicians.

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