On December 13, 2021, the Shanghai Third Branch of the Procuratorate (上海检察三分院) announced a non-prosecution agreement with a Li XX for uploading Underwriters Laboratories (UL) documents, including standards, to a file sharing site and charging others to download the documents, thereby earning about 14,000 RMB (~$2,200 USD).
Category: Copyright
Guangdong Higher People’s Court Rules for Tencent in China’s First Game Map Copyright Case
On December 6, 2021, the Guangdong Higher People’s Court publicly announced a ruling in favor of Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. (深圳市腾讯计算机系统有限公司) in a dispute over copyright infringement and unfair competition relating to maps used in first person shooter games. The Court ordered the defendants Changyou Yunduan (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. (与畅游云端（北京）科技有限公司) and Hero Entertainment Co., Ltd. (英雄互娱科技股份有限公司) to cease infringement and compensate Tencent for economic losses of 25 million RMB. This is believed to be the first time …
China Releases 14th Five-Year Plan Notice on Intellectual Property – China to More than Double Number of Foreign Patents by 2025
Update: Per Toby Mak, the new measure of satisfaction with first instance civil IP judgements may alternatively be understood as compliance with first instance civil IP judgements instead of percentage of cases not appealed. On October 28, 2021, China’s State Council Released the 14th Five-Year Plan Notice of the National Intellectual Property Protection and Utilization Plan (“十四五”国家知识产权保护和运用规划). The IP Plan lists main goals to be accomplished by 2025 with numerical indicators for some of the goals including increasing almost doubling …
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the “Guidelines for Building a Powerful Country with Intellectual Property Rights (2021-2035)”
On September 22, 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the “Guidelines for Building a Powerful Country with Intellectual Property Rights (2021-2035)” (知识产权强国建设纲要（2021－2035年）). The Guidelines set numerical development goals for intellectual property as well as other goals such as “deep participation in global intellectual property governance.”