Text of the provision
Art. 292. Revelation of industrial secrets. - The penalty of prisión correccional in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000) shall be imposed upon the person in charge, employee or workman of any manufacturing or industrial establishment who, to the prejudice of the owner thereof, shall reveal the secrets of the industry of the latter.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
A person in charge, employee or workman of a manufacturing or industrial establishment who reveals the secrets of the industry to the owner’s prejudice suffers prisión correccional in its minimum and medium periods and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (₱100,000).
Questions about this provision
Related provisions
- Article 291 — Revealing Secrets By Employee.
- Article 297 — Attempted Or Frustrated Robbery With Homicide.
Penalty amounts. The text above is the article as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which revised the property values and fines throughout this Code. Older reproductions of the Revised Penal Code still print the 1930 amounts — for theft and estafa they show 12,000 and 22,000 pesos where the current figures run to millions. Check which version any source you rely on is giving you.
Cases interpreting this article
- Authorities on this article will be added here as each is verified against primary sources.