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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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06 Sep 2026
Damages for Trade Secret Infringement in China
AUCL trade-secret damages in Mainland China follow actual loss, the infringer’s gains, a reasonable licence analogy, statutory/punitive bands in serious bad-faith cases, and reaso…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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06 Sep 2026
Trade Secret Clauses in Employment Contracts
A labour-contract trade-secret clause in Mainland China is a confidentiality duty, not a non-compete. It should identify information, measures the employee must follow, return on…
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06 Sep 2026
Burden of Proof in China Trade Secret Cases
The claimant still has to particularise the secret and measures. Once access plus a substantially identical product is shown, Mainland China practice can shift some burden to the…
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06 Sep 2026
Trademark Opposition in China
After CNIPA publishes a trademark application, a short opposition window lets prior-right owners and some interested parties try to stop registration. Miss it, and you are usually…
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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…
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06 Sep 2026
Trademark Licensing in China
A China trademark licence should say who may use the mark, on which goods, where, and quality control. Recordal with CNIPA is not always what makes the licence valid between the p…
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06 Sep 2026
Employee Inventions in China
Service inventions made by employees in Mainland China generally belong to the employer, with a statutory reward and remuneration duty. Freelance and off-duty inventions can belon…
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06 Sep 2026
Technology Licensing in China
Licensing technology into or out of Mainland China is a contract plus an export/import-control overlay. Patent, know-how and software rights must be identified, and some technolog…
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