Helming a team of over 100 lawyers, General Counsel of Foxconn Technology Group (China's largest private employer), Sterry Fang shares about his department's structure and its commitment to developing and implementing a “well-being” programme for its employees
New regulations finally allow FIEs to engage in the master distribution of Chinese publications and expand the scope of foreign investor participation by lowering entry thresholds and eliminating term of operation restrictions
Design can still be protected under Anti-unfair Competition Law after the patent expires.
The 2010 Report selected 43 issues with broad guiding significance from 36 cases including: determination of the equivalence of technical features in a patent infringement dispute and protection of a design under the Anti-unfair Competition Law after the patent expires.
Tax exemption of software design enterprises extended to entrustment of processing.
The Announcement allows tax exemption, setoff and refund of tax of integrated circuit design, software design and animation design enterprises to be extended to entrustment of processing.
Foreign investors placed under the same entry requirements for publication distribution as domestic investors.
The Provisions set forth the requirements and application procedures for establishment of publication general distributors, wholsalers, retailers, and leasing and chain enterprises.
Internet game business requires Rmb10 million of registered capital.
A new circular eases the approval process for overseas players engaging in online sales and business through vending machines. It clarifies the types of business activities foreign enterprises can partake in, but still lacks guidelines on what distinguishes a for-profit internet content provider from a non-profit one