Legislation roundup: SAIC issues provisions on IP abuse

This week the SAIC released another draft of Provisions dealing with the complex question of how China's Anti-monopoly Law should interact with IP rights

1 minute readJune 19, 2014 at 04:23 PM
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Intellectual property



State Administration for Industry and Commerce, Provisions for the Prohibition of the Abuse of Intellectual Property to Eliminate or Restrict Competition by Administrations for Industry and Commerce (Draft for Comments)

国家工商行政管理总局工商行政管理机关禁止滥用知识产权排除、限制竞争行为的规定(征求意见稿)



The Provisions prohibit business operators from reaching monopolistic agreements in the course of the exercise of their intellectual property rights, and prohibit business operators that have a dominant market position from abusing such position in the course of exercising their intellectual property rights to eliminate or restrict competition.



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