Rules for handling arbitration of employment disputes and government personnel disputes unified.

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's M&A Rules effectively blocked domestic Chinese companies from raising money on overseas capital markets. But recent Ministry of Commerce guidelines may have provided a way out. By Zhou Jiaxing, Or & Partners, Hong Kong.

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.

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.

Free web-seminar: April 29, 5.00 p.m. Hong Kong/10.00 a.m. London time

Court makes public its most significant IP cases of 2008

Circular on Delegating to Lower-level Authorities the Authority to Examine and Approve the Investment in, and Establishment of, Companies with an Investment Nature by Foreign Investors

Case is similar to recent complaint against Google in US