2026-08-28
On 23 July 2026 the State Council promulgated the revised Regulations on the Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Designs (State Council Order No. 842), the first systematic revision in...
2026-08-28
On 20 August 2026 the Supreme People's Court issued the Decision Amending the Judicial Interpretation on Copyright Civil Disputes (Fa Shi No. 18), effective 1 September 2026. ...
2026-08-28
Copyright arises automatically in China (a Berne Convention member) — registration is not required for protection, but is strongly recommended for software as prima facie evidence of ownership. ...
2026-08-28
The State Council has issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for IP protection and utilisation (Guofa No. 30), setting the 2026–2030 IP agenda for foreign-rights holders in China.国务院印发《知识产权保护和运用"十五五"规划》（国发〔2026〕30号），为在华外国权利持有人确立2026—2030年知识产权议程。A headline...
2026-08-28
Copyright collective management lets a single licensed society exercise rights that individual rights holders cannot efficiently enforce themselves — performance, broadcasting, rental, information-network transmission and reproduction — and license...
2026-08-28
Trade secrets now expressly cover "data" and "algorithms": the 2026 Rules bring source code, models and customer datasets inside protection. 商业秘密现已明确涵盖"数据"与"算法"：源代码、模型与客户数据集被纳入保护范围。The 2026 Trade Secret Protection Rules (SAMR Order...
2026-08-28
Computer software is protected automatically from completion under the Copyright Law, but registration with the China Copyright Protection Center (CPCC) is the evidentiary cornerstone for enforcement and pledge financing....
2026-08-28
Foreign-owned works enjoy national treatment in China: a work by a foreign or stateless author is protected under the Copyright Law if the author's home country or habitual residence...