Legal Updates

China’s State Council has issued an 18-article regulation on resolving intellectual property (“IP”) disputes related to foreign matters (“IP Regulation”), which will take effect on 1 May 2025.

The IP Regulation is China’s first administrative document providing for the standardised management of IP cases related to foreign matters, aiming to establish efficient and convenient resolution mechanisms and services for citizens and organisations involved in such disputes. The IP Regulation further seeks to facilitate the opening-up of China’s IP industry, providing a framework for domestic enterprises to pursue global expansion.

This Update highlights the key features of the IP Regulation.

On 20 December 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) promulgated the Implementation Measures for the Administration of Company Registration, “Implementation Measures”) to implement the new PRC Company Law and the Implementation of the Administrative System for the Registration of Registered Capital under the PRC Company Law .

The Cyberspace Administration of China is conducting a public consultation on the Personal Information Protection Certification Measures (Draft for Comments) (“Draft Measures”) from 3 January to 3 February 2025.

On 31 October 2024, the People’s Republic of China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Emergency Response Plan for Data Security Incidents in the Field of Industry and Information Technology (for Trial Implementation) (the “Emergency Plan”, 工业和信息化领域数据安全事件应急预案(试行)).

On 22 March 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China published the long-awaited Regulations on Promoting and Regulating the Cross-border Data Flow (《促进和规范数据跨境流动规定》), which came into immediate effect.

On 8 December 2023, the People’s Republic of China issued the Draft Administrative Measures on Reporting Cybersecurity Incidents (网络安全事件报告管理办法（征求意见稿）for public consultation.

Global interest in Generative AI technologies has increased tremendously in recent months, given the emergence of ChatGPT (followed by similar technologies).

Interim measures, also known as “interim relief”, refer to temporary measures that are granted prior to the final arbitral award.

Arbitrations are by-and-large divided into two categories – those that are administered by an arbitral institution (institutional arbitrations) and those

On 20 August 2021, the 13th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China passed the Personal Information Protection

The Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国数据安全法) (“Data Security Law”), which was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on 10 June 2021, has come into effect from today, 1 September 2021.

In June 2020, the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People’s Court (“Court”) granted a civil ruling (“Beijing Ruling”) which dismissed the application to set aside an arbitral award issued by the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (“CIETAC”).