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The Supreme Peoples Court Intellectual Property Tribunal has made a final judgment on an administrative dispute case involving the rejection of a patent application concerning a business method. In this case, the applicants, Beijing Jing Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Jing Trade Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Jing Companies"), filed an invention patent application for a "shared automatic value adjustment method." This application addresses the issue that "in existing technologies, products are shared only on social platforms without tracking order functions, leading to a lack of sharing motivation among users." It proposes a targeted business model called "group buying," which ...
In order to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on comprehensively strengthening intellectual property protection, unify law enforcement standards, and standardize the calculation of illegal operating amounts, the "Measures for Calculating the Illegal Operating Amount in Trademark Infringement Cases" have been formulated according to the "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China", the "Implementing Regulations of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China", and...
On November 4, 2024, the "Draft Amendment to the Arbitration Law of the People's Republic of China" was submitted for its first review by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The proposed amendment includes the establishment of a "place of arbitration" system and aims to improve the rules governing judicial jurisdiction in arbitration.The "place of arbitration," as selected by the parties to resolve a dispute, refers to a specific country or region. It serves as an important basis for determining the applicable law for arbitration proceedings, the rules of evidence, the nationality of the arbitral award, and the competent judicial jurisdiction. According to the draft, parties may agree in writing...
In order to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on comprehensively strengthening intellectual property protection, unify law enforcement standards, and standardize the calculation of illegal operating amounts, the "Measures for Calculating the Illegal Operating Amount in Trademark Infringement Cases" have been formulated according to the "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China", the "Implementing Regulations of the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China", and ...
On October 14, the Second Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone Arbitration and Mediation Week (hereinafter referred to as "Hengqin Arbitration and Mediation Week") was inaugurated at the Qinao International Legal Services Cluster. During the event, the "Action Plan for Building an International First-Class Arbitration Institution at the Zhuhai International Arbitration Center" was officially released, outlining the development plan for the Zhuhai International Arbitration Center over the next two years, with the aim of establishing an internationally ...