State Council, Regulations for Optimizing the Business Environment
国务院优化营商环境条例
December 05, 2019 | BY
Susan MokChina will set up a punitive damages system for intellectual property infringements
Promulgated: October 22, 2019
Effective: January 1, 2020
Main contents: The state will continuously intensify simplified policy procedures and power delegation, minimize direct government allocation of market resources, minimize direct government interference of market activities, and strengthen and regulate during-the-event and post-event oversight (Article 3).
The state will continuously relax market access and implement a unified national negative list system for market access. All types of market players may equally access sectors beyond the market access negative list in accordance with the law.
No regions or departments may separately formulate negative lists of a market access nature (Article 20).
The state shall establish a punitive damages system for intellectual property infringements, promote the establishment of a rapid and concerted intellectual property protection mechanism, improve the diversified intellectual property dispute resolution mechanism and intellectual property rights protection aid mechanism, and intensify efforts to protect intellectual property (Article 15).
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