A much awaited, proposed public draft revision to the Antiunfair Competition Law was released by the State Council Legislative Affairs Office on February 25, 2016. Comments are due by March 25, 2016. […]
Three Upcoming Academic Programs: Reserve the Dates
Here are three upcoming China IP-related programs hosted by academic institutions. On the West Coast, the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley will […]
IPR Abuse and Refusals to License
The US Chamber and American Chamber of Commerce (the “Chambers”) have recently made available its recent comments on the NDRC and SAIC drafts of the IP abuse guidelines to be promulgated by […]
MofCOM Files Amicus Petition for Rehearing
The Trade Remedy Investigation Bureau (TRB) of China’s Ministry of Commerce has filed an amicus petition for a rehearing en banc in Sino Legend v ITC. The petition notes that the Chinese […]
Patent Litigation, Local Protectionism and Empiricism: Data Sources and Data Critiques
Professors Brian Love, Christine Helmers and Markus Eberhardt have recently co-authored an article Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?. The article has been excerpted in the IAM, discussed […]
ABA Comments on draft NDRC IPR Abuse Guidelines
Attached is the package submitted by the ABA Sections of Antitrust Law, IP Law, and International Law, commenting on the draft IP Misuse Antitrust Guidelines of the National Development and Reform Commission. The […]
SAIC Announces Its Latest Draft of IP Abuse Guidelines
“[T]he word transparency [is] the ‘most opaque in the trade policy lexicon.’” Sylvia Ostry On Feb. 4, 2016, SAIC published for public comment its draft Guidelines On Anti-Trust Enforcement Against IP Abuse, […]
Of NDA’s and Smoking Guns: China’s Evolving Landscape of Trade Secret Protection
A recent class at Fordham law school with seasoned IP lawyer Benjamin Bai, of Allen & Overy’s Shanghai office, brought home to me some of the differences in substantive technological secret protection […]
US-China Legal Exchange to Highlight IP Issues in Palo Alto and Washington DC
The 20th annual US-China Legal Exchange will occur February 29 and March 2, 2016 n Palo Alto, California and at the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia (near Washington, DC). Registration and additional information […]
Slouching Towards Innovation – A Survey of the Surveys on China’s IP Environment
Here is a summary of the business surveys on IP protection in China, drawn from the European Chamber of Commerce in China, Business Confidence Survey 2015 (June, 2015), the US China Business […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 