Dispute Resolution

Promulgated: October 12 2002Effective: October 16 2002Applicability: The Interpretation is also applicable to trademarks for services (Article 23). The…

Building on prior rules protecting trademarks, the government has issued new guidelines on how trademark dispute cases should be heard.

The Interpretation for the first time supplemented the summary provisions issued more than 10 years ago in the Civil Procedure Law.

Recent legislation from different government bodies have brought IP protection for software to a new level, but questions remain.

Promulgated: July 27 2002Effective: September 1 2002Main contents: The Regulations set forth the procedures for handling of labour disputes through mediation…

The aim of this piece of legislation is to maintain the secure and reliable operation of the Chinese Internet domain name system and to standardize administration of the Chinese internet domain name system in line with international standards.

The Ministry of Information Industry and the China Internet Network Information Center recently issued separate pieces of legislation that aim to bring China's freewheeling internet sphere under additional legislative control.

Disputes over the right to use sea territory may be resolved by government mediation or directly by litigation at a people's court.

Forum for foreign civil commercial cases.