“When a stranger lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The stranger living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you […]
Further Trade-Responsive IP Legislative Developments May Be In the Works…
SIPO/IP Agencies to Be Reorganized and Consolidated
Several Chinese news agencies have reported that the State Council proposed reorganization os now being presented to the National People’s Congress. Once implemented, these reforms will significantly rearrange all Chinese agencies, including […]
Beginning the Journey for Trade Secret Reform: the Recent AUCL Draft
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
GAI’S Comments on NDRC’s IP Abuse Guidelines
“[T]he code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules” (Barbossa, Pirates of the Carribean, The Curse of the Black Pearl). Attached find the comments of the Global Antitrust Institute of […]
GAI Comments on SAIC IP Abuse Guidelines, NDRC’s Up For Comment
Attached are the comments in English of the Global Antitrust Institute on SAIC’s draft IPR Abuse, as well as the Chinese Translation) (received January 14 here at chinaipr.com) NDRC’s comments are also up […]
“I’m Lovin’ it!” – A “Wrong Way” for McDonalds?
My colleague at Fordham Law, Geoffrey Sant, has written an interesting blog on Salon “McDonald’s self-hating complex: Why its overseas P.R. campaign is the worst of all time” that addresses McDonald’s Chinese […]
JCCT 2014 Winds Up – Joint Fact Sheets Now Released
The 2014 JCCT was hosted by the US government in Chicago, Illinois this year. Here is a link to the updated English fact sheet (released Dec. 29) (Chinese:第25届中美商贸联委会联合成果清单) that is now a joint fact sheet. Here is […]
A Quick Report on the EIPC MIIT Conference Including SAIC’s IP Abuse Rules, Patent Law Amendments, EIPC MIIT Standardization Policies, Standards and IP Abuse…
EIPC MIIT’s Conference on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law convened on December 10 and 11 in Beijing. The conference brought together about 150 international and Chinese experts, including lawyers, judges, academics, […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 