According to the official central Chinese government website, on December 5, 2018, Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council meeting which cleared the long awaited proposed draft of the patent law amendments. […]
Global Antitrust Institute Releases Its Comments on NDRC IP Abuse Rules
Attached are the English and Chinese comments of George Mason’s University Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) on the draft NDRC Guideline on Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights. The comments were prepared by Koren W. […]
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 […]
ABA Section of International Law Comments on NDRC Questionnaire on IP Abuse Guidelines
The American Bar Association has once again made publicly available its response to the NDRC questionnaire on drafting IP abuse guidelines, attached here. This is a useful and large bilingual download which […]
Comments of George Mason University on Antitrust Questionnaire
Attached are the comments in Chinese and English of George Mason University’s Global Antitrust Institute on the Questionnaire on Intellectual Property Misuse Antitrust Guidelines distributed by NDRC. The Director of the GAI is Joshua […]
SAIC Releases IP Abuse Rule
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 […]
NDRC and Qualcomm Reach Resolution of Antimonopoly Law Complaint
Qualcomm announced yesterday, February 9, that it has reached a resolution with China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) regarding the NDRC’s investigation of Qualcomm under China’s Antimonopoly Law (AML). The NDRC has […]
FTC Chairwoman Ramirez on China’s Approach to Licensing Standards Essential Patents in China
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Ramirez recently delivered a speech on “Standards-Essential Patents and Licensing: An Antitrust Enforcement Perspective at Georgetown University’s Global Antitrust Conference” (Sept. 10, 2014). Here’s what she said […]
NDRC, IP and China’s Plans for 2014
The NDRC released to the public last week its Notice of Its Opinion on Key Tasks on Deepening Economic Reform in 2014 (国务院批转发展改革委关于2014年深化经济体制改革重点任务意见的通知) (dated April 30, 2014, released May 20, 2014) (http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2014-05/20/content_8818.htm). […]
InterDigital Settles With NDRC
According to a May 22 press release (http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140522-903952.html) , InterDigital has settled antimonopoly charges with the National Development and Reform Commission of China. InterDigital’s commitments regarding licensing of its patent portfolio for […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 