Recent action by China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") demonstrates renewed Chinese antitrust focus on standard essential patents ("SEPs")....more
We recently issued a reminder of the September 1 effective date of China’s new Data Security Law (DSL) and its potential impact on all business operators in China, including multinational corporations. But the DSL is not the...more
U.S. companies have been complaining for years that Chinese companies are allowed to steal and misappropriate U.S. intellectual property rights at will and without recourse. However, many commentators, including former U.S....more
Previously we discussed a Unified Patents’ article, the “FRAND SCAM” fails to address many key points. But worse than these sins of omission, the article goes so far as to make some outlandish misrepresentations about the...more
On 11 October 2019, China's State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR") published the Regulations on the Registration of Trademarks, which will become effective on 1 December 2019. The Regulations are implementing...more