某公司一名员工跳槽,带走了其技术秘密。该公司诉诸法律,将该员工告上了法庭,通过调查取证、组织专家技术鉴定等,经过长达5年漫长的诉讼,终于打赢了官司。律师告之,如果是申请了专利,则打官司的时间可缩短三分之一以上。从此,该公司开始对申请专利予以特别的重视,凡有新技术出来,迅速去申请专利。但专利申请是否是保护技术的唯一有效途径呢? A company employee quit, took away its technical secrets. The company resorted to law, the staff to court, through the investigation and evidence collection, the organization of expert technical appraisal, etc., after up to 5 years long litigation, finally won the lawsuit. Counsel, if it is a patent application, the litigation time can be shortened by more than a third. Since then, the company began to pay special attention to patent applications, where new technologies come out and quickly apply for a patent. But is patenting the only effective way to protect technology?