Which employees should sign confidentiality agreement in China?
June 15, 2009
According to Article 6 of “Several Opinions on Strengthening Management of Technical Secrets” promulgated by Ministry of Science and Technology, in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws, enterprises and institutions may sign confidentiality agreement with the scientific and technological personnel, administrative staff, and employees who may be aware of the technical secrets.
In general, employees that should sign confidentiality agreement include:
1. Senior R&D staff, technicians and management personnel, who may hold the core technologies of enterprises, or take charge of management work, or control the critical business information. They are the major group for signing confidentiality agreements.
2. Technical support staff and skilled workers in key posts. Although they are not the crucial group, they may also come into contact with the core technologies, which make it necessary for them to sign confidentiality agreements.
3. Market planners and sales staffs, who are the undertakers of business decisions. Since they know about the marketing plans and customer lists, enterprises shall sign confidentiality agreements with them.
4. Accountants, secretarial staff and security personnel, who may know about the commercial secrets because of their posts. If they do not sign confidentiality agreements, they may disclose the secrets intentionally or unintentionally.
Content and form of secrecy agreement
According to the principle of justice, equity and negotiation, secrecy agreement should include the following contents such as scope and content of secret, rights and obligations of each party, period for guarding secret and liabilities for breach of contracts.
Form of agreement is shown as follows:
The agreement between employer and employee is to keep business secret.
1) Due to the working requirements, employee is permitted to obtain business secrets relating to job, including…. Meanwhile, employer is responsible for professional and technical training. Employer should give an honor if employee makes a contribution to keep business secret.
2) Employee should safeguard the interest of enterprises and consciously and strictly abide the secrecy regulation.
3) Employee is not allowed to divulge business secret to any units and individuals.
4)Employee is not allowed to use business secret for personal interest.
5) Employee is not allowed to occupy the business secrets obtained from work or R&D, and related documents, blueprints and samples should be archived instead of keeping privately.
6) The permission of employer is necessary if employee is going to stop the employment contract. All the business secret documents should be transferred to employer. Meanwhile, employee has the obligation to keep business secret and will not engage in any job relating to the business secret of former employer within three years.
7) Both employer and employee should follow the agreement, and if one breaches the agreement, the other is entitled to investigate the responsibility of breach agreement and require compensation for economic losses.
The agreement will come into force from the date of signing.
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Ford Ends the Parallel Parking Nightmare
February 1, 2009
I avoid parallel parking with every ounce of my being. I haven’t attempted a parallel parking maneuver since drivers’ ed in high school. It’s true! So I was really impressed to learn that Ford is introducing an Active Park Assist feature on the 2010 Lincoln MKS, which will be available in summer 2009.
I know what you’re thinking: “Didn’t Lexus already introduce this feature?” Well, yes and no. Ford’s system uses ultrasonic-based sensors and electric power assisted steering to position your car for parallel parking, calculates the optimal steering angle and quickly steers the car into a parking spot with the touch of a single button. This technology is supposed to be a step above the Lexus system which utilizes video cameras to determine how to steer the vehicle. According to Ford execs, the system works faster and more accurately than the Lexus system, and should be less expensive as well.
In addition to helping ease parallel parking woes, the system also increases fuel economy by up to 5 percent while reducing emissions and enhancing performance, compared with traditional steering, Ford says.
“This is technology not for the sake of technology,” said Ali Jammoul, Ford’s chief engineer for chassis engineering and steering systems, “but technology designed to meet the needs and wants of customers.”
If a Lincoln MKS is not in your price range, you will be happy to know that by 2012, Ford plans to fit nearly 90 percent of its Ford, Lincoln and Mercury lineup with this system, putting it within reach for the masses.
Source: http://www.motherproof.com
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Google wins suit over name
January 15, 2009
IPR procedures in China took a long way. Every passing year IPR protection is being improved and we are witnessing better protection of IPR. Here is one case resulted in (Source:Shanghai Daily) :
GOOGLE Inc, owner of the world’s most-used Internet search engine, won a lawsuit in China over its subsidiary’s name and trademark in Chinese, ending an 18-month dispute with a local company.
Google China will be paid 100,000 yuan (US$14,624) in compensation from Beijing Guge Science and Technology Co, according to a filing by Beijing’s Haidian District court yesterday. In 2006, Google named its unit in the country ”Gu Ge”, which means ”harvesting song” in Chinese. A year later, Beijing Guge sued Google, claiming the California-based Internet company was using its name. The court ruled that Beijing Guge must stop using the name because it belongs to Google’s China unit, according to the filing.
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Relocation of Factories in China
January 14, 2009
Chinese factories is in process of relocation toward the second and third tier cities to cut costs and reinforce competitiveness. Here is one example for the process:
To broaden sources of income and reduce expenditure, Taiwan-based technology manufacturing group Hon Hai Precision Industry Company is planning to implement large-scale employee relocations to third-tier Chinese mainland cities that can offer preferential tax policies in addition to reducing its operating budget for 2009 by 20%.
According to reports from Taiwan local media, the company, which is the parent company of Foxconn, will reduce the number of its employees in the Shenzhen Longhua plant from 260,000 to 100,000 and will transfer its focus to inland areas such as Wuhan, Hubei province and Jincheng, Shanxi province. Edmung Ding, a spokesperson from Hon Hai, said facing the severe global economic situation, Hon Hai started to re-deploy its human resources around China two years ago.
But Ding points out that the company has no layoff plan in its Longhua plant, contrary to news from published reports. In addition, he emphasizes that the 20% budget reduction will be carried out in accordance with the actual situations of different units and will not be enforced under a unified standard.
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Number Plate Recognition Technology
October 13, 2008
Recent advances in Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technologies have lead to a greater acceptance of the technology by car-park operators. The new digital ANPR technologies present greater read rates than traditional CCTV/PC based technologies and offer far greater flexibility in deployment and customization than previously available. By attaching a unique signature to every vehicle entering and exiting a car park the potential of a car-park management system is greatly enhanced. The signature widely used by vehicle identification technologies is usually the registration number displayed on the front and rear of the vehicle. To robustly read this plate in all weather conditions, day and night and to increase the ability of a system to read dirty plates, Alpha Vision Design has developed a stand alone digital ANPR station that can extract the registration number and automatically present the number for processing. The applications of ANPR technologies can be used for tolling, police enforcement, journey time analysis, average speed violation and access control. Within the car parking domain, most car park operators use ANPR technology as a medium to locate lost vehicles, to calculate occupancy times and to dramatically decrease the revenue loss associated with ticket fraud. ANPR is also finding favour within non-supervised car parks as a means to control access via a white list. This white list contains a list of vehicles with known access rights. Suitable for hotel, apartment and company car parks, this negates the use of disposable paper tickets and wireless FOBs. Companies with large fleets are introducing ANPR as a cost effective method of tracking their vehicles throughout their depots. Large supermarkets and chains are also beginning to utilize the information obtained from their car-parks as a way of highlighting demographic patterns with a view to maximizing profits. For any traffic management system to be a success, the read rate must exceed 99%. Traditionally most operators shied away from ANPR when they discovered that their true read rates were rarely above 60%. In real world applications, this was the limit, not due to poor software but the result of using conventional CCTV systems to obtain the images. CCTV technology is 50 years old and does not lend itself well to computer recognition systems. The common processing core for CCTV based ANPR systems is a PC. CCTV/PC based systems are not robust and are unacceptably high maintenance. To counter this, Alpha Vision Design has developed a self-contained ANPR system designed specifically for the car parking industry. This system includes an integrated illuminator, high resolution digital camera, digital analyser and on-board relays, all contained in one standard security housing. Only mounting and a power cable is required – an industry first! A high resolution camera obtains images that are over sixteen times larger in area size than CCTV images. Combined with a wider field of view, now only one camera is required to capture both the registration plate and an overview of the vehicle, and vehicle placement within a lane is no longer an issue which leads to greater capture rates. The camera /computer unit can in real time adjust the exposure, gain, and the integrated on-board IR lighting to maximise the contrast and readability of the registration plate, including dirty plates, variations in plate reflectivity, strong headlamps and adverse weather conditions. This cannot be done with CCTV/PC based ANPR systems. The setup is easy and is only required once per site, with no re-configuration necessary even after a power outage as the system will reboot automatically. On a typical 800 bay car-park, the system can also store up to five years of data, capturing and time stamping an image of every vehicle entering and exiting the facility. The system is true Plug & Play and can directly control a parking barrier via its on-board database and integrated relays. For configuration, simply use any standard web browser to manage the ANPR station – no third party software is required to manage the entire ANPR network. Our standard systems are shipped in three versions. We have an ANPR station designed for operating at a 10 meter and 25 meter range, and a system for high speed traffic applications. All systems are pre configured and only mounting is required. The ANPR stations can act stand alone or integrate with an existing parking entry ticket/gate system. For remote applications, the ANPR station can also be configured to run over GPRS, TCP/IP and WIFI Networks.
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