Building on prior rules protecting trademarks, the government has issued new guidelines on how trademark dispute cases should be heard.
October 31, 2002
Dispute Resolution
The Interpretation for the first time supplemented the summary provisions issued more than 10 years ago in the Civil Procedure Law.
October 31, 2002Recent legislation from different government bodies have brought IP protection for software to a new level, but questions remain.
October 31, 2002Promulgated: July 27 2002Effective: September 1 2002Main contents: The Regulations set forth the procedures for handling of labour disputes through mediation…
October 02, 2002The aim of this piece of legislation is to maintain the secure and reliable operation of the Chinese Internet domain name system and to standardize administration of the Chinese internet domain name system in line with international standards.
October 02, 2002The Ministry of Information Industry and the China Internet Network Information Center recently issued separate pieces of legislation that aim to bring China's freewheeling internet sphere under additional legislative control.
October 02, 2002Disputes over the right to use sea territory may be resolved by government mediation or directly by litigation at a people's court.
June 02, 2002Forum for foreign civil commercial cases.
May 02, 2002Evidential rules in PRC civil litigation, with special stipulations for invention patent infringement cases.
March 31, 2002Rules for PRC lawyers on client instructions, fiduciary duty, advertising, and judicial independence.
March 31, 2002