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 […]
A Hot Tale of Cool Teas
Just recently the lunar calendar passed into the period of “Grain Rain”((谷雨, guyu) in China. This is a time of increasing temperature and high humidity, which is ideal for growing grains. The temperature […]
SAIC Announces Beginning of Revision Process to Anti-Unfair Competition Law
SAIC has announced on its website that it has “formally” begun the topic of revision the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (which includes trade secrets): http://www.saic.gov.cn/fldyfbzdjz/gzdt/201403/t20140303_142680.html. (《反不正当竞争法》修法课题正式启动). According to this press report, the SAIC Competition Enforcement […]
SIPO’S 2012 National IP Development Situation Report
SIPO released a 71-page report on the 2012 National IP Development Situation (2012年全国知识产权发展状况报告) on June 5, 2013, the fifth anniversary of SIPO’s adoption of the National IP Strategy Outline. Although this is […]
Supreme People’s Court Annual Report Shows Continued Meteoric Growth in Litigation and Increasing Professionalism of the Court
It is IPR Week in China, and once again there will be a flurry of reports that were presumably embargoed by Chinese agencies for the festivities of the week. It’s a bit […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 