On June 17, 2026, the finals of the 6th Shenzhen Lawyers Business Innovation Competition successfully concluded. Llinks partner Ms. Cherri Che stood out from numerous participating projects with her submitted "Trade Secret 'System + Software' Dual-Track Implementation Legal Service Product" and won an award in the competition.
As a core intangible asset of enterprises, the practical protection of trade secrets has long faced the dilemma of "difficult implementation." Traditional consulting services stop at institutional texts but lack technical execution mechanisms; meanwhile, pure software tools, although capable of providing encryption functions, cannot truly comprehend "reasonable confidentiality measures" in a legal sense. An unbridgeable "implementation gap" lies between the institutional system and its execution.
With over a decade of deep engagement in the intellectual property field, Ms. Cherri Che currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Patent Committee of the Guangdong Lawyers Association and the Director of the Trade Secret Committee of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association. Driven by a deep understanding of market pain points, she pioneered an innovative "legal + technical" dual-professional synergy model. Under this approach, the legal team and the encryption software company jointly engaged with the client from day one, translating legal compliance requirements into actionable technical solutions—including encryption strategies, access controls, and audit trails. This enabled a seamless integration between policy provisions and software-level implementation.
The core competitiveness of this product is reflected in three major differentiating advantages: First, "system defines software"—while identifying confidential points, lawyers directly define software strategies to ensure that legal logic runs through the entire process of technical implementation. Second, delivering "provable management behaviors"—institutional documents, operation logs, and approval records corroborate each other to form a complete chain of evidence. Third, "frictionless compliance"—by adopting transparent encryption and decryption technology, employees' daily office work is barely affected, which greatly reduces internal implementation resistance.
The product follows a standardized seven-step implementation process, ultimately delivering a four-in-one complete asset package covering an institutional document package, a software configuration package, operation logs, and training records. Taking a smart hardware enterprise as an example, this product has successfully covered its 16 departments and over 200 terminals, effectively enhancing the operational efficiency and management level of the enterprise's confidentiality system and receiving positive feedback from the client. This product is widely applicable to trade secret-intensive enterprises in sectors such as chips, medical devices, smart hardware, and biomedicine, and can be extended to subsequent legal service scenarios like litigation responses and IPO due diligence. Concurrently, it is compatible with mainstream encryption systems such as GreenShield, IP-guard, and Tianrui, demonstrating high replicability and broad promotional prospects.
Ms. Cherri Che stated: "The future of trade secret protection does not lie on paper, but in terminals; not in clauses, but in behaviors. We hope that through the deep integration of professionalism and technology, we can help more enterprises build a solid defense line for trade secret protection."
Looking ahead, Llinks will continue to deeply engage in the fields of intellectual property and trade secret protection, empowering innovation with professionalism and safeguarding the high-quality development of enterprises with outcome-driven solutions.
