Recently, Medtronic Company gained a final and winning judgment by Shanghai first intermediate People's court in the case of non-competition labor dispute between Medtronic and its former employee. Shanghai Llinks Law Offices, as agent ad litem, represented Medtronic in the stages of labor arbitration, first hearing and final hearing.
Medtronic is one leading transnational company in the field of medical high-tech and ranks among top 500 listed by Fortune. In recent years, transnational companies and Chinese native companies attach more and more importance to the protection of their trade secrets, and accordingly, more and more non-competition disputes arise. The final judgment by Shanghai first intermediate People's court will bear an instructive significance to some extent for similar cases.
