Intellectual Property

The Opinion advises people's courts in their trial of patent, trademark and unfair competition cases in a view to protect the fostering of domestic intellectual property.

The Interpretation sets forth circumstances under which a people's court will not examine whether the concerned trademark is well-known or not.

A new wave of copycat items is flooding China's already-saturated market for counterfeits. But IP owners should worry less about the products, and more about the thinking behind them.

Raymond [email protected] April 2009, the Chinese Supreme People's Court (SPC) published its list of model IP cases for 2008. These…

Manisha Singh NairLex [email protected] protection and monitoring of works of copyright often pose a challenge owing to the large volumes in…

The Court presents its most significant IP cases of 2008.

The Supreme People's Court sets out more detailed plans for the implementation of a number of the reforms contained in the State Council's 2008 National IPR Strategy.

Utility model patents are simple, quick and cheap to file in China. They can also be used as a weapon against under-prepared foreign companies, for as long as 10 years.

China continues to take steps towards unifying its approach to intellectual property with the development and codification of a national strategy. CLP presents an analysis of some of the biggest IP-related issues affecting those who do business in the PRC.