Law: Anti-Unfair Competition Law 2017 (China)

Building a robust trade secret strategy in China

Featured in The Guide to Life Sciences: Key issues for senior life sciences executives 2024

Life sciences companies should look to China’s recent legislation and court decisions as a framework to build a robust China IP strategy that integrates both patents and trade secrets.

24 June 2024

Xiaomi’s voice-activation command prompt awarded protection in precedent-setting trademark dispute

The Wenzhou Court has affirmed that words with certain influence and popularity are protectable under the Anti-Unfair Competition Law in a trademark-squatting case brought by tech giant Xiaomi. For rights holders of voice-activation command prompts, it is crucial to prove that their names help to identify the source of goods or services.

19 June 2024

China: Trade secrets – policy and latest developments

Featured in Trade Secrets Hub 2024

Currently, the trade secret protection framework is achieved via three paths: civil enforcement litigation, criminal measures and administrative enforcement requests. Although the number of trade secret cases is increasing, the win rate is relatively low, indicating that Chinese companies still lack awareness when it comes to protecting these rights.

07 March 2024

The Beijing Measure: whether data should be a registered and protected form of intellectual property in China

Featured in Inside China’s IP Market: a Guide 2024

Shenzhen, the Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces and Beijing have enacted data IP registration-related legal documents, responding to calls for the establishment of a data property rights system. Beijing’s efforts highlight it as a pilot area for national data IP work.

27 September 2023

China’s attention on trade secrets suggests change afoot in 2023

Possibility of a more comprehensive protection system across China comes with doubts about effectiveness of administrative enforcement

22 December 2022