The Beijing IP Court has recently released a Report on patent linkage, which highlights the legal challenges that the courts may face in implementing the proposed linkage regime, entitled “Research on the China […]
New SPC Guiding Opinion on E-Commerce and IP
On September 12, 2020, the Supreme People’s Court issued its new “Guiding Opinion on the Trial of Civil Cases of Intellectual Property Rights Involving E-Commerce Platforms” 关于审理涉电子商务平台知识产权民事案件的指导意见 (the “Guiding Opinion”). This Guiding […]
SAMR Releases Draft Trade Secret Rules for Public Comment
On September 4, 2020, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) released Draft Trade Secret Protection Rules for public comment [商业秘密保护规定（征求意见稿）] including an accompanying explanation. Comments are due by October 18, 2020. […]
An Update on Data-Driven Reports on China’s IP Enforcement Environment
Several useful empirical reports on China’s IP environment have been released in the past few weeks. I summarize four of them: Trademark Litigation Jerry Xia and his colleagues at the Anjie firm […]
New Draft JI on Enforcement on Criminal IP Laws, Especially Trade Secrets
China’s judicial organs (the Supreme People’s Court [“SPC”] and Supreme People’s Procuratorate [“SPP”]) continue to work on trade secret related judicial developments, with the release on June 17, 2020 of the “Interpretation […]
More Encouraging News of Trade Secret Reform… But Is It Always Good for the Foreign Community?
James Pooley posted a great blog on IPwatchdog on the recently released draft judicial interpretation on trade secrets (the “Trade Secrets JI”). In his blog, “Has China Finally Embraced Trade Secret Protection […]
100 Priority IP Projects for 2020
What does the recently released CNIPA document listing “100 Projects in 2020 to Deeply implement the National Intellectual Property Strategy to Accelerate the Construction of the Intellectual Property Powerful Country Promotion Plan” […]
Three New Draft JI’s
On June 10 (Beijing time), the Supreme People’s Court published three new draft judicial interpretations (JI’s) for public comment. Comments are due by July 27, 2020. The three draft judicial interpretations are: […]
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 […]
Resources for the Week of May 18, 2020
On May 20, 2020 (4:30 PM PST), Berkeley will be hosting the next in our China series: Following the Data: What the Latest Research Says about China’s Legal and IP Environment. The […]
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