Published: July 28, 2017
Publisher: IAM
“As we reported earlier this month, the Anti-Monopoly Commission of China’s State Council will release a major set of IP and antitrust guidelines in their final version before the end of 2017.
The guidelines are a big project that has been several years in the making. All of the major antitrust and IP-related agencies – NDRC, SAIC, Ministry of Commerce and SIPO – are collaborating this time around, whereas in the past they have issued their own IP-related rules. That means that the final version of the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines on the Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights will be China’s most definitive policy to date across a range of important issues impacting patent owners.”