First Chinese judgment rejects foreign sanctions on Chinese party as defense for contract breach | Chinese tax-residents must pay income tax on gains of assets transferred to offshore trusts | Three major Chinese banks issue first loans using interbank repo rates as a pricing benchmark
Chinese financial regulator to take over Zhongbang Bank due to severe credit risks | U.S. companies adopt Chinese AI and China considers restrictions | CNIPA maintains validity of first virtual digital human patent, clarifying inventiveness standards for AI model training
AI is now all-pervasive and raises many novel legal issues. Wu Qiong and Wang Xuying of Haiwen & Partners explore a significant Intermediate People’s Court ruling on employee dismissal ostensibly driven by a the adoption of AI technology
Chinese regulator rejects patent re-examination application involving AI content | Sweeping cybersecurity rules for banks and insurers on protecting financial infrastructure | Supreme People's Procuratorate proposes treating privacy coin use as evidence of money laundering intent
China’s first overhaul of its trademark law in decades focuses on good faith | Draft revisions of E-Commerce Law expands its scope beyond platforms and merchants | ByteDance and Alibaba disable AI custom agents ahead of new anthropomorphic rules
Jun Luo, a Ph.D. Candidate in Intellectual Property Law at Tongji University Law School, examines a key Supreme People’s Court case from a data law perspective, analyzing its implications for data rights, platform responsibilities, user autonomy, and the evolving interface between data regulation and competition law in China
DJI and Insta360 file competing patent infringement lawsuits in Texas court | Chinese ECARX partners with U.S. May Mobility despite U.S. restrictions on Chinese connected vehicle technology | Bipartisan U.S. proposal to streamline biological data access amid China rivalry
Chinese companies are abandoning their red-chip structures after the Manus case | Trip.com fined for failing to comply with cross-border data security rules, signifying strict enforcement| China's win in Innoscience patent case against Germany's Infineon doesn't necessarily mean continued victory over the German chip giant.
Chinese Wingtech sues Dutch subsidiary chipmaker Nexperia under Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law | Hong Kong instructs banks to tighten scrutiny of mainland Chinese investment accounts | European Commission proposes supply chain diversification rules in sensitive sectors.
U.S. government seeks court intervention on divestiture order against Suirui. | U.S. charges Chinese shipping container companies over alleged cartel during COVID. | Foreign PE are redirecting funds from Chinese investments to other Asian countries
