On September 13, 2020, China’s Supreme People’s Court released the Guiding Opinions on Trial of Civil Cases Involving Intellectual Property Rights of E-commerce Platforms. The Opinions may make takedowns of infringing products sold on e-commerce platforms easier and more common. As Mark Cohen, prior
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation released the Antitrust (also referred to as Anti-Monopoly) Guidelines of the Antitrust Committee of the State Council on the Field of Intellectual Property. The guidelines are dated January 4, 2019, but only officially released on September 18, 2020
On September 25, Director of China's National Intellectual Property Administration Shen Changyu and the Director of the European Intellectual Property Office Christian Archambault held a video meeting. Shen and Archambault discussed the progress of the intellectual property protection, bilateral
On September 27, the National Intellectual Property Administration agreed to set up China (Shanxi) Intellectual Property Protection Centers, bringing such centers nationwide to 37.Shanxi Protection Center is the first one in Shanxi Province and the first Intellectual Property Protection Center in ce
Mr. Yan Xiaohong, Chairman of the Copyright Society of China, was elected as the first Assembly Chair of Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (Beijing Treaty), at the 61st Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which too
