Under the Draft Regulations, Export Control Supervision Code will be assigned to all controlled items under the dual-use item control list, and MOFCOM will be equipped with more enforcement tools against those companies with poor control of...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has posed new challenges as well as opportunities for global intellectual property ("IP”) protection. The number of IP applications in China has shown a steady growth trend after a brief slowdown in 20...

Global Law Office’s Owen Cox explains the options and intricacies available to foreign businesses when considering an exit from China. An earlier version of this article first appeared in the International Financial Law Review.   China’s ...

On March 17, 2022, the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the "New Interpretation") was ...

The Trial Provisions on Administration of Automotive Data Security   (“Automotive Data Regulation”) was promulgated on August 16, 2021 and became effective since October 1, 2021.   The Automotive Data Regulation   is the first sectoral da...

Improper serving of a foreign judicial document to a party domiciled in China – a signatory country of the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Hague Service Conventio...