1 Legal Framework 1.1 Sources of Legal Protection for Trade Secrets Unlike for patents, trade marks and copyrights, there is no separate Trade Secret Law in China, but instead, a trade secret protection system based on the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (202...

Online platforms have been playing an increasingly critical role within Chinas commercial ecosystem. According to statistics, Chinas online retail sales reached Rmb15.97 trillion (US$2.3 trillion) in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 8.6 percent. Among the...

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, AI generated content is being produced at a pace beyond imagination. At the same time, the variety of such content continues to expand from texts to images to videos. As the sophistica...

This country-specific QA provides an overview ofIntellectual Propertylaws and regulations applicable inChina. What different types of intellectual property rights exist to protect: (a) Inventions (e.g. patents, supplementary protection certificates, right...