Intellectual Property

13 Sep 2026

Patent Annuity / Maintenance Fee Calculator

13 Sep 2026

IP Infringement Damages Estimator

13 Sep 2026

Trademark Official Fee & Nice Class Search Tool

12 Sep 2026

Sports and Esports in China

Sports and esports projects in China sit across event regulation, association rules, contracts, intellectual property, media, advertising, data, employment and consumer protection…

12 Sep 2026

Entertainment and Performing Arts in China

A live entertainment project in China must identify the legal organiser before tickets go on sale or artists are announced. The performing group, performance agency, venue operato…

10 Sep 2026

Unfair competition & trade secrets

Anti-unfair-competition claims, trade-secret protection and enforcement beyond registered IP rights.

10 Sep 2026

Copyright registration & enforcement

Copyright ownership, registration/record evidence, licensing, online infringement and enforcement.

09 Sep 2026

IP Licensing in China

An IP licence for Mainland China should identify the rights actually owned, the acts permitted, the products and territory covered, and who controls registration, quality, enforce…

09 Sep 2026

Trade Secret Misappropriation and Civil Enforcement in China

A successful China trade-secret claim begins by identifying the protected information precisely. The claimant must address whether the information was non-public, commercially val…

07 Sep 2026

Licensing & portfolio monitoring

Structure China trademark, patent, know-how and software licences, then align recordal, quality control, portfolio monitoring and enforcement rights.

07 Sep 2026

Trade secrets & employee IP

Control China employee access, ownership, confidentiality, exits and incident evidence around trade secrets, software and other employee-created IP.

06 Sep 2026

Trademark Invalidation in China

Invalidation attacks a registered China trademark. Absolute grounds (bad faith, prohibited signs, no-intent-to-use) and relative prior-right grounds have different clocks. It is t…

06 Sep 2026

What Information Can Be a Trade Secret in China?

AUCL trade secrets include technical and business information: processes, source, recipes, customer depth, pricing models and bidding files — if they are non-public, valuable and…

06 Sep 2026

Former Employees and Trade Secret Risk

The highest-risk moment for a Mainland China trade secret is the last 30 days of employment and the first 90 days at a competitor. Access cut-off, return of devices, and a paid no…

06 Sep 2026

Supplier Trade Secret Risk in China

Drawings and know-how leak through Mainland China supply chains when the NNN is with a trader, the plant is unnamed, sub-suppliers are free, and samples walk. Bind the entity that…