Written by Huang Haiming, King & Wood Mallesons’ Intellectual Property group
In recent years, with the development and maturity of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, China has ushered in an upsurge of high-tech entrepreneurship. With the timely launch of the Science and Technology Innovation Board, domestic high-tech start-ups have become the most popular investment targets in the capital market. Since intellectual property (“IP”) rights are the core value of high-tech start-ups and the high risk of investment, it has become the most concerned issue for investors before making investment decisions. Therefore, more and more investors choose to entrust intermediary agencies to conduct specific due diligence on the target company’s IP rights before making investment decisions to understand the target company’s IP rights and provide extremely important information support for investment decisions. Continue Reading Introduction to Intellectual Property Due Diligence
China’s announcement of an exemption for animal testing on imported cosmetics will come into effect from 1 May 2021.
偷税行为的构成及处罚规定于《税收征收管理法》，虚开发票的认定及处罚规定于《发票管理办法》，看似“平行”的两种税收违法行为，却是探讨偷税认定时无法忽视的一部分内容，实践中不容回避的一个问题是，如果纳税人是以虚开发票为手段形成偷税的结果，如何进行处罚？二者能否“并罚”？
前言：近日新修订的《医疗器械监督管理条例》(“2021年版条例”)引发了业界的广泛关注，其中第53条更是被广泛解读为国家已经从官方层面正式认可LDT模式。借此契机，结合我们长期服务相关LDT企业的经验，我们拟对该第53条及国家有关LDT业务的监管思路做一个梳理。
引言
专利制度中，单一性原则的提出主要是便于专利局对专利申请进行处理、检索和审查，便于权利人行使权利、承担义务，便于法院和专利行政执法部门处理专利纠纷，也便于公众有效利用专利文献，为各国所普遍采用[1]。单一性虽非授权实质要件，但因影响授权过程以及申请人经济负担，仍属于受到重点关注的问题之一。2021年3月1日，新版《欧洲专利局审查指南》（Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office，以下简称“EPO新指南”）发布并于同日起正式生效实施。EPO新指南对单一性内容部分进行了大幅修改，不仅在审查方法上进行了全新编写，而且对行文结构进行重新梳理，并新增生物序列专利单一性审查规则。本文谨对EPO新指南有关条文进行梳理和解读，并与我国审查指南的相应规定及审查实践进行对比分析。
The pandemic does not seem to have slowed down the rapid development in autonomous cars in 2021. Autonomous driving is seeing a boom in investment. In China alone, there have been 24 financings related to autonomous cars in the first two months of 2021. The total amount of financing involved exceeded RMB 17 billion.