The Chinese IP environment continues to pursue its own domestic needs-driven agenda. Criminalization of trade secret matters, while an area of concern to the United States, is also important to China’s development […]
Second US-China IPR Cooperation Dialogue Report Released
The 2014-15 US – China IP Cooperation Dialogue report has been just released by the US Chamber of Commerce. The Chinese title: 中美知识产权学者对话纪要. Here is a link to last year’s report for comparison. […]
Tudou Encounters a “Hot Potato” In Distributing A “Bite of China”
From April this year, the Supreme Court launched started releasing “model cases” (典型案例) in order to assist the courts and public to better interpret the law. On June 23, 2014 the Supreme […]
First Guiding Case on Intellectual Property
Stanford’s Mei Gechik reports through Don Clarke’s Chinalaw listserve that Stanford’s Guiding Case project has just made available an English translation of the first guiding case on intellectual property: Shenzhen Siruiman Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. v. Shenzhen Kengzi […]
IPR Model Cases: Part of the Long Journey towards IPR Case Law with “Chinese Characteristics”?
Late last month the SPC published a list of eight model cases (Dianxing Anli,典型案例). The cases highlight some important new trends in the court, and also suggest directions that the court is […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 