Specialty Group: Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Cybersecurity

In recent years, the Chinese government and the China National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”) have been promoting enforcement of patent rights through administrative actions. In a recent notice publi ...

Trademark squatting has long been the foremost concern for foreign companies wishing to enter the Chinese market, and the new Chinese Trademark Law efffective from November 2019 has stepped up to combat trademark squatti ...

The PRC Copyright Law is a progressive enactment which provides a full range of protection to copyright and related rights in line with the Berne Convention. The various amendments to the Copyright Law reflect China's de ...

Author: Robert H. Rotstein On March 16, 2020, the Ninth Circuit ended a lawsuit alleging that Disney’s Inside Out infringed plaintiffs’ alleged copyright in characters known as “The Moodsters.” Daniels, et al., ...