Study Group: Lawyers (China)(?)

Although the PRC Court has given its final determination in relation to the insufficiency issue, this is not the end of Pfizer's VIAGRA patent dispute in China. The Beijing No 1 People’s Court noted that the Patent Review Board had reviewed only the insufficiency ground, and it had referred...

The Potsdam trade talks between the G 4 WTO members – the United States, the EU, Brazil and India – concluded last week without progress on bridging most negotiating positions. But an agreement at the Potsdam talks was not indispensable to the ultimate success of the WTO’s Doha Round negotiations....

The Bush Administration's decision to apply the US Countervailing Duty law to imports from China is a reversal of a policy in effect since the 1980's barring application of antisubsidy duties to nonmarket economies. Although applied in a preliminary determination in the "Coated Free Sheet Paper from...

China issued its Regulation on Commercial Franchises (“Regulation”) on February 6, which will be effective on May 1. Where many uncertainties remain, the Regulation represents a major improvement over the past regulatory regime in (i) the “two plus one” requirement is relaxed. The Regulation dropped...