The State Administration of Industry and Commerce has issued final Rules on Stopping the Abuse of Intellectual Property to Eliminate or Restrict Competitive Conduct on April 7 (Order No. 74) (关于禁止滥用知识产权排除、限制竞争行为的规)with an […]
SAIC Releases IP Abuse Rule
Patent Law Amendments Translation
Attached is a translation of proposed patent law amendments and explanatory notes that involve antitrust (particularly standards essential patents), courtesy of Steve Harris and Winston & Strawn. My blog on the patent law amendments […]
Draft Service Invention Regulations Out For Public Comment
On April 2, 2015, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office (“SCLAO”) published a draft of the Service Invention Regulations along with an accompanying explanation. The draft was prepared with the assistance of SIPO and the […]
Patent Law Revision Released for Public Comment
Today, April 1, SIPO started to solicit public comments on its new draft of Patent Law Amendments The deadline for submitting comments is April 28. The link underlined above includes links […]
Licensing: A Forthcoming Program and Some Historical Perspective
With recent antitrust investigations in China, as well as China’s design to have more market-oriented targets for IP, export growth in IP rights from China is slated to grow from 1.36 billion USD […]
Civil, Criminal and Administrative IP Litigation Continued in Climb in 2014
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate released a summary of their IP-related activities as part of their annual work report to the National People’s Congress. As reported by the Beijing […]
WIPO, SIPO and USPTO: US-China Patent Filing Trends
Chinese Activity at WIPO A WIPO report released on March 19 noted that Huawei, with 3,442 published PCT applications, overtook Panasonic as the largest applicant in 2014. Qualcomm was the second largest […]
ABA Releases Comments on Draft JI on Preservation Measures for IP and Competition Matters
Here are the comments submitted by the sections on Antitrust Law and International Law of the American Bar Association on the draft Judicial Preservation on Action Preservation in IP and Competition Matters […]
Guo Shoukang, Eminent Scholar of IP Law, Passes Away
I am sorry to report that Prof. Guo Shoukang 郭寿康, the UNESCO Professor of Copyright Law, emeritus, at Renmin University, died Monday March 22 at 12:35 PM. Prof. Guo was in his […]
Dueling Software Data in the Spring and A Changing Tech Environment
夜来风雨声， 花落知多少? (At night the sound of wind and rain; Who knows how many flowers have fallen?; Poet Meng Haoran, 689-740, “Spring Dawn”) It is almost April, which means it is not […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 