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China IP Newsletter May 2021

Dear CBI Members and Colleagues,

Please find the latest IP Newsletter below highlighting the latest news and IP developments in China.

Download China IP Newsletter May 2021

For more information kindly contact: leo.zhuang@fcdo.gov.uk

China Direct would like to thank the IP team for sharing this information.

IP Rights SE Asia Webinar 26 May 2021

Dear Members and Partners,

Kindly find details of an IP Rights webinar covering SE Asia to be held tomorrow, Wednesday 26th May from 1330-1530 (BKK time) and hosted by the IP SE Asia SME Help Desk with support from the EUIPO.

For further information and to register please click here.

Many thanks.

CHINA DIRECT

China IP Newsletter April 2021

 

Dear CBI Members and Colleagues,

Please find the latest IP Newsletter below highlighting the latest news and IP developments in China.

Download China IP Newsletter April 2021

For more information kindly contact: leo.zhuang@fcdo.gov.uk

China Direct would like to thank the IP team for sharing this information.

China IP Newsletter March 2021

 

Dear CBI Members and Colleagues,

Please find the latest IP Newsletter below highlighting the latest news and IP developments in China.

Download China IP Newsletter March 2021

For more information kindly contact: leo.zhuang@fcdo.gov.uk

China Direct would like to thank the IP team for sharing this information.

China IP Newsletter January 2021

Dear CBI Members and Colleagues,

Please find the latest IP Newsletter below highlighting the latest news and IP developments in China.

Download China IP Newsletter January 2021

For more information kindly contact: leo.zhuang@fcdo.gov.uk

China Direct would like to thank the IP team for sharing this information.

China IP Newsletter Oct 2020

Dear CBI Members and Partners,

Kindly find the latest IP Newsletter produced by the UK IP team based at the British Embassy in Beijing and across the FCDO network in China.

There are helpful insights into China's Patent Law, Anti-Monopoly Law, the city of Shenzhen's plans to further protect intellectual property and much more.

Please access the Newsletter below:

Download China IP Newsletter October 2020

CHINA DIRECT would like to thank Leo Zhuang (leo.zhuang@fcdo.gov.uk) and the Intellectual Property Office for kindly sharing these insights.

UK Intellectual Property Office China Briefing August 2020

 

The CBI would like to share with members the latest policy update briefing from the UK Intellectual Property Office.

This is an ad-hoc newsletter to inform UK stakeholders of recent developments in the Chinese IP environment. This edition of the newsletter includes a summary of the second deliberation draft of China’s amended Copyright Law, the latest guidance from China’s Supreme Court on searching for precedents when bringing cases to trial in China, and new guidelines from China’s National Intellectual Property Administration relating to administrative patent enforcement.

To find the briefing in full, please download below:

Download (8) 21 2020 - China IP Newsletter August 2020

Our thanks to the UK's IPO for kindly sharing this newsletter with CHINA DIRECT

China IP Trends - CBI Summary

Dear CBI Members and Partners,

Kindly find a summary of China IP trends prepared by Joe Cash of the CBI BJ team.

Download (3) 30 2020 - Member Briefing_ China Intellectual Property Landscape

Best wishes,

CHINA DIRECT

China Intellectual Property Newsletter - sign up below

China Intellectual Property Newsletter - sign up below

 

Following the announcement that China’s National People’s Congress has approved updates to China’s Trademark Law, readers of China Direct may wish to read and subscribe to the UK Intellectual Property Office ‘China IP Newsletter.’

The newsletter aims to keep UK businesses up to date with any recent developments in China’s IP environment, and is often the only English-language update on changing legislation.

This month’s edition includes information on how to submit an opinion on China’s ‘Draft Regulations on Trademark E-filing’, a selection of case studies explaining how foreign companies can expect their trademarks to be protected in law in China, as well as updates on key ministers in the Chinese government and their attitudes towards IP topics.

To read the newsletter in full, please follow the link.

The CBI Beijing Office would like to thank our partners at the British Embassy and Intellectual Property Office.

Everything you wanted to know about IP in China but were too afraid to ask

CBI members in Beijing gathered yesterday to receive the annual IP briefing from a renewed IP network stretching across Beijing and Shanghai. Members also received a briefing from the visiting Deputy Director for International Policy from the Intellectual Policy Office (IPO), outlining how the IPO was adapting its strategy to handle the imminent changes in IP protection companies will face as a result of the UK leaving the European Union, as well as where the IPO sees opportunity to work with China on improving its own domestic IP strategy.

Speaking on the subject of IP protection in China, the following issues were identified as the main IP concerns for British business in China:

• Age and pace of Chinese system – China’s IP system has developed incredibly fast, with the first piece of IP law having been introduced in 1983. As a result, the Chinese government is both under pressure and very ambitious when it comes to introducing IP reforms. That presents a challenge for foreign businesses when it comes to keeping up with changes to China’s IP system and the reasoning behind those changes.
• Chinese IP system has been designed with Chinese companies in mind. Currently, only 1% of IP-related Chinese civil court cases involve foreign parties, while 85% of TM applications are made by Chinese companies
• That means that the Chinese IP system is under growing pressure to mature and cater to foreign companies as China ‘goes global.’ Members were then invited to provide inputs on technical IP issues, such as bad faith trademarks, patent law, e-commerce and copyright law. While discussing these specific areas in detail, several key trends emerged:

• The Chinese government is very good at introducing reforms and new regulations to clamp down on IP infringement. Where it is not so good however, is implementing these laws and punishing companies found to be infringing on another’s intellectual property
• The existing methods for punishing companies found to be infringing on another’s intellectual property are insufficiently punitive.
• Chinese companies are highly adept at finding ways around new and existing regulation, and see doing so as a way of guaranteeing a competitive edge over rivals.
• Existing legislation lacks the maturity to cater to foreign companies, who are used to dealing with systems of greater sophistication. This presents itself as a market access barrier as it makes it difficult to invest in collaboration with Chinese partners with the confidence that any transferred technology will be sufficiently protected in China.

 

For more information regarding IP and introductions to the UK Embassy's IP team please contact the CBI's Beijing office:

E: Joe.cash@cbi.org.uk Tel: 010 85253100

Thank You.