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 …
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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.”
China’s National People’s Congress Releases Translation of the Amended Copyright Law
China’s National People’s Congress has recently released a translation of the amended Copyright Law. The full text in English is available here. The original Chinese text is available here. The amended Copyright Law is effective as of June 1, 2021. Some of the highlights in the amended Copyright Law include punitive damages for intentional infringement, an increase in statutory damages, and an increase in civil fines for copyright infringement. For ease of reference, the full English translation is reproduced here.
Beijing Intellectual Property Court Affirms Jaguar Land Rover’s Win Against Landwind for Copying Evoque
According to a report in China’s IPR Daily, on May 27, 2021, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court affirmed Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) win against Landwind (陆风) for unfair competition relating to the Landwind X7, a vehicle that looks remarkably similar to the JLR Evoque. Landwind must issue an apology, pay compensation and cease infringing. Earlier, JLR successfully invalidated Landwind’s design patent for the X7. However, JLR failed in its claim for copyright infringement on appeal.