Unfair Competition

3 exemplary cases: unfair competition in digital era

 Case 1A Shenzhen city-based art publishing and dealing group published text and 3,700 or so images about the artworks on the catalog to be sold at 16 forthcoming auctions on the website it hosted. A Beijing-based tech company copied the text and images and republished them on its own website w

Top 10 anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition cases as of 2017: Beijing Intellectual Property Court

China’s Beijing Intellectual Property Court on March 16 published an overview of anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition lawsuits since its inception in 2014 and a list of top 10 exemplary cases the court ruled on as of 2017.

Chinese kiosk producer fined $16,000 for false advertising as McDonald's supplier

​China’s Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court on December 26 upheld the lower court’s decision ordering Guangzhou Taiyun Tech Co., Ltd. to pay 100,000 yuan ($16,000) in damages in a legal battle with Guangzhou Coates Signco Trading Co., Ltd.

China’s top 6 corporate compliance cases released by SPP

China’s Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on December 15 released this year’s second list of 6 representative cases for corporate compliance, two of which are intellectual property cases.

Carrefour accuses Walmart of forcing merchants to choose sides

Retailer Carrefour China accused Sam’s Club, a Walmart Inc.’s unit, of forcing merchants to choose between it and Sam’s Club, a monopolistic behavior being cracked down on by the Chinese government.