By King and Wood Mallesons’ Patent Team

On April 28, 2020, the Supreme People’s Court issued the Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Trial of Administrative Cases Involving Granting and Confirmation of Patent Rights (I) for public comment by June 15, 2020.  This version is the version that the Supreme People’s Court reissued after the old version issued in June 2018.  This article highlights the articles in this version of the revised draft that have caused widespread concern as follows. Continue Reading Supreme People’s Court Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Trial of Administrative Cases Involving Granting and Confirmation of Patent Rights (I) (Draft for Comment)

作者：金杜律师事务所专利团队

2020年4月28日，最高人民法院公布了《关于审理专利授权确权行政案件若干问题的规定（一）》，向社会公众征求意见，截止至2020年6月15日。该版是最高人民法院继2018年06月旧版之后再次公布的版本。本文对此版修改稿中引起广泛关注的条款着重介绍如下。 Continue Reading 最高人民法院《关于审理专利授权确权行政案件若干问题的规定（一）》 （征求意见稿）

By Xu Jing King and Wood Mallesons’ IP group

On May 13, the Inter-Ministry Joint Conference Office of State Council of China for Implementing IP Strategy announced the Proceeding Plan of 2020 for Deeply Implementing the National IP Strategy and Accelerating to Build an IP Powerful Country (“the Plan 2020”), revealing reformation arrangements relating to IP for the year of 2020 on multiple aspects, including to deepen reformations in the fields relating to IP and to enhance protections for IP. The Plan 2020 includes the following aspects, which is closely related to technology-related IP including patents and technical secrets. Continue Reading IP Joint Conference Office Announced Plan 2020, which will Enhance Protections for IP including Technology-related IP such as Patents from Multiple Aspects

作者：徐静 金杜律师事务所知识产权部

2020年5月13日，中国国务院知识产权战略实施工作部际联席会议办公室公布《2020年深入实施国家知识产权战略加快建设知识产权强国推进计划》，从深化知识产权领域改革、加大知识产权保护力度等多个方面对2020年知识产权相关改革工作进行了部署。其中涉及的如下多个方面与专利、技术秘密等技术类知识产权密切相关： Continue Reading 知识产权联席会议办公室公布2020计划，将多方位促进专利等技术类知识产权的保护

作者：罗华， 帝马修

2020年5月21日，美国参议会一致同意通过了《让外国公司负责法案》（“HFCAC法案”）。该法案如果变成法律，将会适用于在美国证券交易所上市的中概股，要求该类公司遵守美国法规及审计标准和信息共享，否则将面临退市的可能，尽管这样做可能会导致中概股违反中国法律。 Continue Reading 美国“让外国公司负责”法案与中概股退市

Written by Handel Lee, Laura Luo, Thomas M. Shoesmith 

On May 21, 2020, the United States Senate passed the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the “Bill”) with unanimous consent. If it becomes law, the Bill would apply to Chinese companies, among others, listed on U.S. securities exchanges and require them to comply with U.S. regulatory and audit standards and information sharing, notwithstanding that to do so may result in a breach of Chinese law. The consequence of non-compliance would be a prohibition on the trading of the company’s securities on any national securities exchange or through any over-the-counter method in the United States. Continue Reading Chinese Update – U.S. Listed Chinese Companies and the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act

Sprout Land Holdings Ltd（申请破产管理令程序中），Re [2019] EWHC 806 (Ch)

作者：Barri Mendelsohn Jenny Wilcock, Cassandra Ditzel and Daniel Jones

2019年2月，英国高等法院就关于董事任命的书面决议无效后对后续管理人任命的影响做出了判决。 Continue Reading 股东和董事：基本程序会给你带来的麻烦

Sprout Land Holdings Ltd (In Administration), Re [2019] EWHC 806 (Ch)

written by Barri Mendelsohn Jenny Wilcock, Cassandra Ditzel and Daniel Jones

 

In February 2019, the UK’s High Court was asked to consider the effects of an invalid appointment of a director, via written resolution, on the subsequent appointment of administrators. Continue Reading Shareholders and directors: where basic procedures can trip you up