Strategies include undertaking a full risk assessment, conducting comprehensive due diligence, establishing adequate contractual protections, developing proper monitoring procedures and designing and implementing a thorough compliance system

The new interpretation clarifies details which are lacking in the Patent Law and builds on practical issues addressed by the Implementing Rules, such as the use of reports and the judgment of equivalent infringement, damage claims, royalties and expenses, says Xi Sun

Llinks Law Offices

The Shanghai FTZ's first wholly foreign-owned hospital faces the same restrictions as in the rest of the nation. What the authorities will do to simplify the process, and the project's fate, will determine global access to this industry

The Shanghai FTZ's first wholly foreign-owned hospital faces the same restrictions as in the rest of the nation. What the authorities will do to simplify the process, and the project's fate, will determine global access to this industry

This week the NPC set up specialised IP courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the US-China Business Council said foreign companies were being unfairly investigated and China faced difficulties reaching its growth target

If the trademark is not registered, materials evidencing that it has been continuously used for not less than five years shall be submitted.

The Supreme People's Court has explained work injury insurance cases and the State Council has publicised the administrative information of enterprises as well as clarified the use and trading of polluting entities' emission rights

This week Fonterra partnered up with a Chinese infant formula maker, KKR invested in the country's largest chicken company and local Chongqing officials tempted manufacturers to move west