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On August 28 2020, the Chinese Supreme People's Court (SPC) granted the very first anti-suit injunction in the standard essential patent (SEP) royalty dispute case of Huawei v Conversant, which enjoined Conversant Wireless Licensing (Conversant) from seeking enforcement of the Dusseldorf regional court's injunction ruling against Huawei Technologies (Huawei). This case thus opened the door for Chinese courts to issue anti-suit injunctions (ASIs).

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that simulates human intelligence. It performs tasks that usually require human intelligence, such as visual perception, natural speech recognition and language translation.

近年、中国市場規模の継続的な成長、中国の知的財産保護環境の改善、人々の知的財産保護への意識の高まりに伴い、中国における特許・商標の出願件数と知的財産紛争は急速に増加している。企業は、大量の特許・商標出願件数がもたらす紛争リスクに対し、それらを見逃さず、積極的に対応する必要がある。また、安全な生産と運営活動を守るために、中国の知的財産保護の現状について理解を深め、知的財産制度を最大限に活用する必要がある。以下、知的財産レイアウト、知的財産紛争、法規制の推移の観点から、中国における特許・商標の出願と保護の現状及び動向について分析する。

Yongyu Zhang of Beijing East IP examines trends and developments in the fields of patents and trademarks, looking at application patterns, disputes and changes in the law

Back at the end of April, the Committee of the Science and Technology Innovation Board at the Shanghai Stock Exchange announced that the meeting for reviewing the initial public offering (IPO) application of MEMSensing, a Chinese MEMS microphone sensor supplier, was cancelled due to an "emergence of significant matters." The "significant matters" they were referring to were 16 patent disputes brought by Goertek seeking both permanent injunctions and damages totalling over RMB 100 million ($14.5 million). Goertek and MEMSensing are competitors producing MEMS microphones, a key component in the smart speakers of Google, Amazon, Apple, Alibaba, and Xiaomi.

To strengthen copyright protection, and to implement relevant provisions of the Economic and Trade Agreement between the US and China, on August 5 2020, the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (the SPC) issued a draft Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of Copyright and Copyright related Rights (关于加强著作权和与著作权有关的权利保护的意见) for public consultation.