On March 13, 2025, China’s State Council issued new regulations regarding resolving foreign-related IP disputes. These comments discuss how the regulations might be used to encourage Chinese government responses to foreign government and judicial agencies’ actions against Chinese companies defending or asserting their rights overseas.
Public Interest and Private Rights in the Copyright Law Amendments
June 13 is the last day for submitting comments to China’s National People’s Congress on proposed revisions to China’s Copyright Law. In this blog, I discuss draft provisions in the Copyright Law […]
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 […]
NDRC IP Abuse Guideline Out For Public Comment
NDRC has released a draft for public comment of its Antitrust Guidelines for Abuse of IP知识产权滥用的反垄断指南（征求意见稿）(English language wordcloud above). As with the NDRC questionnaire this appears to have been selectively released although […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 