Wanhuida Intellectual Property | China | 31 Jan 2022
In response to growing demands regarding the use of IP rights as pledges, China's State Council has proposed to improve the regime for the registration, assignment and licensing of IP rights. In light of the State Council initiative, the China National Intellectual Property Administration recently released the amended Measures for Registration of Pledge on Patent Rights to streamline the......
Lexology PRO | China, European Union, Finland, etc. | 16 Jan 2022
Lexology PRO shares weekly regulatory updates published by data protection authorities around the world.
Lexology PRO | China, Global, Switzerland, etc. | 7 Jan 2022
Lexology PRO shares weekly sanctions-related updates from around the world.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | China | 8 Oct 2021
China’s new legislation on Personal Information Protection (“PIPL”) will come into force on 1 November 2021. Mr Yang Heqing, an official from…
Lexology PRO | Australia, China, European Union, etc. | 27 Aug 2021
Lexology PRO shares weekly regulatory updates published by data protection authorities around the world.
PRO Compliance | Asia-Pacific, Australia, Canada, etc. | 2 Nov 2020
China’s draft data protection law and how it compares with the GDPR, new data subject access obligations in the UK, and emerging cyber threats all feature in Lexology’s key data protection updates from over the last week.
PRO Compliance | Germany | 27 Apr 2020
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has approved a controversial deal between a pair of locomotive manufacturers, providing a detailed roadmap for the assessment of investments by Chinese state-owned entities in merger control proceedings.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP | China | 17 Jan 2020
On December 28, 2019, China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (“NPC”) published a new draft Export Control Law (“the draft law”)…
Baker McKenzie | China | 10 Jan 2020
On January 1, 2020, the Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China (FIL), which China's State Council enacted on March 15, 2019 (see…
Taylor Wessing | China | 27 Nov 2019
The construction of a "social credit system" (“SCS”) is not an entirely new concept in the People's Republic of China (“China” or “PRC”). However…