There have been a number of empirical reports in recent weeks on China’s IP system. In this blog, I look at the annual Supreme People’s Court 2017 Report on the Situation Regarding […]
The Widening Impact of China’s Publication of IP Cases
I recently had the opportunity at the Fordham IP Conference to discuss the potential impact of the continuing publication of court decisions by China’s courts since 2014, including their wide-ranging impact on […]
IPHouse And IP Litigation Strategies
(IPHouse data on foreign-related IP cases at the Beijing IP court) A Chinese judge recently told me that amongst the most important developments in the Chinese judiciary in recent years has […]
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, […]
Justice Tao Kaiyuan and the Role of the Judiciary
Justice Tao Kaiyuan of the Supreme People’s Court, who had been to the United States in 2015 delivering important speeches on rule of law, has recently published an article on “Giving Full […]
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 […]
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 […]
American Bar Association comments on SAIC IPR Abuse Guidelines (8th Draft)
The American Bar Association has just released its comments on the SAIC IPR Abuse Guidelines which are available here.
New Service Invention Draft Regulation…And Web page
SIPO released its latest draft for public comment of its proposed service invention regulations 职务发明条例草案 (送审稿), including a very useful Chinese language webpage on April 1. The website contains additional reference materials […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 