Legal

In order to be recognized as a headquarters or regional headquarters, the institution must satisfy four conditions. Many incentives are provided to foreign investors for establishing headquarters or regional headquarters.

China continues to develop its legal regime protecting the creation and development of new plant varieties with the issuance of new rights and remedies available for infringement disputes involving new plant varieties.

This interpretation sets out who is entitled to sue in court when a right in the new variety of plant has been infringed, what constitutes an infringement, how specialized issues are resolved, and what remedies are available.

Wen Jie and Richard Wageman discuss the development of the exponentially growing franchising market in China, against which the most recently promulgated franchising legislation is interpreted.

By Paul McKenzie and Fraser Mendel, Morrison & Foerster LLPThe Partnership Enterprise Law, originally promulgated on February 23, 1997, was amended…

This law introduces some new regulations with respect to new and existing franchising businesses, and stipulates the requirement of information disclosure by a franchisor to a franchisee.

Increasingly activist senior environmental official Pan Yue has urged the Chinese legislature to step up its efforts against pollution by amending the…

A National People's Congress leader warned the people of Hong Kong to stop "messing around" with politics, suggesting Hong Kong might be marginalized if…

Increasingly activist senior environmental official Pan Yue has urged the Chinese legislature to step up its efforts against pollution by amending the…