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. […]
SPC Sets Up Team to Work on Civil Law Reform – IP Likely Continues in the Mix
On May 12, the SPC set up a civil law codification team, chaired by Vice Presidents Xi Xiaoming, He Rong, Tao Kaiyuan, with Du Wanhua 杜万华 serving as Director of the Office. […]
2014 Judicial IPR White Paper Shows Huge Growth in Trademark Appeals
It is IP week and for IP data geeks like me, China is publishing huge amounts of data in a short period of time. The biggest challenge isn’t collecting the data, but […]
New SPC Guidance on Appointments to and Jurisdiction of Specialized IP Courts
There have been two documents released recently on specialized IP courts. One is the “Guiding Opinion of the Supreme Peoples Court on on the Work of Choosing Judges Rules for the IP […]
China’s Judiciary Publishes Its Views on Trade Secret Protection
Several prominent Chinese judges recently published a Chinese language book on “The Judicial Protection of Trade Secrets” (商业秘密司法保护实务) (China Legal Publishing House May 2012) (536 pp, 98 RMB). The book is an […]
Official announcement of the FCBA Bench and Bar Program in Beijing
The Federal Circuit Bar has just posted the formal announcement of its Bench and Bar program with the China Law Society, which will be hosted at Renmin University May 28-30, with the […]
Hon. Denny Chin: The “Jeremy Lin” of the Federal Judiciary
Judicial engagement with China on IP issues has frequently had a markedly different tenor from other forms of engagement, such as executive branch, business, or academic. Judges carry less political baggage than […]
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