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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Plant Variety Rights in China: What a Seed Company Must Prove When a Former Distributor Reproduces and Sells Protected Material
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
When a Senior Engineer Leaves a Foshan Appliance Manufacturer: Building a Trade-Secret Case Under the 2025 Anti-Unfair Competition Law
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Who Owns the Tooling and Product Design After an OEM Relationship Ends? IP and Unfair-Competition Risk in Dongguan Manufacturing
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
When a Former Supplier Launches a Lookalike Industrial Component: Choosing Between Patent, Trade-Secret and Unfair-Competition Claims in China
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Commercializing Research-Institute Technology in China: How to Transfer Patents, Employee Inventions and Trade Secrets into a Venture-Backed Spin-Out
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Settling a China Trademark Conflict Without Losing the Brand: Coexistence, Assignment, Invalidity and Non-Use Cancellation Strategy
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
When a Departing Engineer Takes Source Code: Building a China Claim Across Software Copyright, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
First 72 Hours After a Key Engineer Downloads Technical Files: Building a China Trade Secret Case Under the 2025 Anti-Unfair Competition Law
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Trade Secrets in Technology Financing: When an Investor Should Require IP Ownership Remediation Before Closing
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Pre-IPO IP Cleanup for Suzhou Technology Companies: How Patent Ownership, Employee Inventions and Research-Institute Licenses Become Registration-System Problems
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
GPL Open-Source Code in a Chinese Commercial Product: How to Prevent a Software Copyright Dispute Over Secondary Development and Source-Code Disclosure
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Legally reviewed · 7 Sep 2026
Defending Chinese Brands in Global Expansion: USITC Section 337 Investigations, Federal Court TRO Defense, and E-Commerce Account Freeze Unblocking
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