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2025-02-14

US Copyright Office Releases Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

As countries around the world have been accelerating their researches on the protection of AI-related innovations, the recent release of Deepseek has drawn more global attention on the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2023, the US Cop

2025-01-31

China Takes Lead in Global Growth of IP

China's quantity and quality of patent and trademark applications both increased in the past year, with intellectual property protection getting stronger, according to a senior IP regulator. Last year, the number of valid domestic invention patents in Chi

2025-01-30

China’s Patent-intensive Sectors Contributed 13% of GDP in 2023

The added value of China's patent-intensive industries was 16.87 trillion yuan ($2.35 trillion) in 2023, contributing 13.04 percent of the country's GDP, an increase of 0.44 percentage points from the previous year, the China National Intellectual Propert

2025-01-24

Police Crack Down on Food, Drug, Environment, and IP Rights Offenses

Police in China investigated as many as 91,000 criminal cases in the fields of food and medicine safety, intellectual property rights, and environment in 2024, the Ministry of Public Security said. The ministry has carried out special campaigns in recent

2025-01-20

35th Meeting of China-France Mixed Committee on Intellectual Property Rights Held in Beijing

Recently, the 35th Meeting of China-France Mixed Committee on Intellectual Property Rights was held in Beijing. Shen Changyu, Commissioner of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), and Pascal Faure, Director General of the Nation

2025-01-15

Chinese National People's Congress Seeks Opinions on the "Proposed Amendments to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law"

In efforts to enhance Chinas legal framework against unfair competition and promote orderly and fair market competition, the 14th National Peoples Congress Standing Committee recently reviewed the draft amendments to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the

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