China releases much of its IP data in April, on the margins of World IP Day (April 26). This year there have been important conferences summarizing these reports in advance of […]
Summarizing the SPC’s 2015 White Paper
GAI and ABA Publish Their AUCL Comments
Attached are the comments of the American Bar Association Sections on International Law and Antitrust Law on the proposed draft revisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL) as well as comments of the Global […]
Imminent Program in Shanghai with the IP Judiciary
IP Key, the European program for IP cooperation with China is sponsoring an EU-China Judge’s forum in Shanghai on March 17-18. The program is jointly organized by IP Judicial Protection Research Center […]
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. […]
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 […]
Lilith Games v. uCool – Seeking Preliminary Relief in the US
Attached is the order denying a preliminary injunction in Lilith Games v uCool (N.D. Cal., Sept. 23, 2015). According to the order of Judge Conti, Lilith is a video game developer that released […]
IPR Outcomes in the 26th JCCT
Here are the IP outcomes of the 26th Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, concluded early in November 2015 in Guangzhou. The IP-related outcomes appear primarily in three different places in the […]
Federal Circuit Bar Hosts Discussion on Trade Secret Law Developments
Today, May 12, 2015, the Federal Circuit Bar Association in connjunction with the USPTO will host a discussion on trade secret legislative reform with Prof. Huang Wushuang of East China University of […]
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 […]
IP in the Xi-Obama Meeting – Following the Data Stream
There wasn’t much IP in the recent meeting of the Chinese and US heads of State at APEC in Beijing, nor should one expect more than a brief mentioning amongst all the […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 