Intellectual Property

Promulgated: October 12 2002Effective: October 15 2002Applicability: This judicial Interpretation shall take precedence over all previous law that conflicts…

Promulgated: October 12 2002Effective: October 16 2002Applicability: The Interpretation is also applicable to trademarks for services (Article 23). The…

Building on prior rules protecting trademarks, the government has issued new guidelines on how trademark dispute cases should be heard.

Recent legislation from different government bodies have brought IP protection for software to a new level, but questions remain.

Promulgated: September 17 2002Effective: October 17 2002Interpreting authority:  State Administration for Industry and CommerceApplicability: …

The new copryright law implementing regulations are intended to bring China's copyright regime closer to full compliance with the TRIPs Agreement of the World Trade Organization

Amendments to the PRC Trademark Law, prompted by China's entry into the World Trade Organization, entered into effect on December 1 2001. 1 On August 3 2002, the State Council promulgated the PRC Trademark Law Implementing Regulations (Implementing Regulations), which supplement various provisions in the amended Trademark Law.

This set of regulations supplements various provisions in the amended PRC Trademark Law effective on December 1 2001.

The PRC State Council published the new Copyright Law Implementing Regulations (the Regulations) on August 2 2002, almost a year after the Copyright Law was amended. The new Regulations are mainly intended to bring China's copyright regime closer to full compliance with the TRIPs Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO).