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In view of Tianjin explosion, Kunshan factory explosion and many other work safety accidents are frequently happened recent years, the State Administration of Work Safety released the ‘Revised Measures’. Compare with the ‘Measures for the Administration of Contingency Plans for Work Safety Accidents’ (the ‘Original Measures’)released in 2009, there are several highlights: To specify the responsible person for the contingency plans Article 5 has specified that the main responsible person of an entity shall be responsible to organize the drafting and implementation of the entity’s contingency plans, and shall guarantee the contingency plans are true and practical. To add the…

In 2013, the draft of ‘The Guidelines for the Determination of Patent Infringements’ was released for collecting comments, because it has involved too many aspects and departments, it had not been issued for a long time. So in July 2014, the State Intellectual Property Office issued the ‘The Guidelines for the Determination of Patent Infringements and Counterfeiting Behavior (for Trial Implementation)’ (‘The Guidelines 2014’). After nearly 3 years for collecting comments and amending, ‘The Guidelines 2016’ has been released and come into force on 5 May 2016. Like the ‘The Guidelines 2014’, ‘The Guidelines 2016’ has explained the articles by…

The Amendment (IX) to the Criminal Law (‘Amendment’) has come into force on November 1 2015. In order to highlight the other factors on identifying an embezzlement crime or a bribery crime, and the penalty, the Amendment has stipulates the monetary threshold as ‘a large amount’, ‘a huge amount’ and ‘an extraordinarily huge amount’, instead of a specified amount. But this change has brought a lot difference on the individual cases. Recently, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate have jointly released the Interpretation. There are 20 articles, which covers 11 aspects, including the monetary threshold. There are…

The ‘Property Law’ has been promulgated for nearly 10 years, recently, the Supreme People’s Court released the ‘Interpretation I’, which has further prescribed the issues on the registration of the immovable property, the division of co-owned property, the bona fide acquisition, and etc.. Hereinafter, we would like to introduce the articles about the bona fide acquisition briefly. 2 elements shall be applied on the identification of a bona fide acquisition The assignee would not get to know that the assignor has no right of authorized disposition ‘Interpretation I’ has listed 5 circumstances on this, for example, there is valid dissidence…

The Anti-Domestic Violence Law will come into force on 1 March 2016. This law has prescribed the definition of the ‘Domestic Violence’, which refers to the physical or mental infringement acts conducted to family members by beating, trussing, cruelly killing, forcibly limiting the personal freedom, regular verbal abuse, intimidation or otherwise. On the prevention and management of the Domestic Violence, the highlight of this Law includes: The report system. While found a person with no or limited capacity for civil conduct who experience the Domestic Violence, the staffs of the schools, kindergartens, medical institutions, residents and villagers committees, social work…

After the State Council has released the ‘Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Intellectual Property under the New Situation’ in December 2015, the China Asset Assessment Association (‘CAAA’) has released the Guideline in 31 December 2015, which will come into force from 1 July 2016. In fact, for the IP asset assessment issues, based on the categories of assert, CAAA has established a ‘1+3’ system on assessing the value of IP asset, including ‘Asset Assessment Criteria – Intangible Assets’, ‘Guidance on the Patent Asset Valuation’, ‘Guidance on the Trademark Asset Appraisal’ and ‘Guidance on the Copyright Asset Appraisal’. However, even…

On 2 December, 2015, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council has published the Revised Draft of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft for Review) (hereinafter referred to the ‘Revision’), and sought for public comments. The Revision has covered 33 articles, in which it has amended 18 articles, added 14 articles and deleted 1 article. The following aspects shall be paid attention to. To amend several articles related to the Design Patent The partial designs shall be protected. The current definition of the ‘Design’ is that any new design of the shape, pattern or their…

In order to encourage the domestic R&D, recently, the Ministry of Finance, SAIC, the Ministry of Science and Technology have jointly promulgated the “Circular”. Based on No.116 GUO SHUI FA [2008] and No.70 CAI SHUI [2003] (hereinafter refer to the “Old Policies”), the “Circular” has further prescribed the requirements on the details of the expenses and the control on the amortization of the expenses, which mainly includes: To expand the scope of the items which could be deducted The scope of R&D: the “Circular“has prescribed the “negative list”, in which it has sets out the activities and industries to which…

11 years later, in order to strength the enterprises’ autonomy, and manage the enterprises by being slack at enrolment but strict at daily operation, the SAIC has amended ‘The Administrative Provisions on Business Scope Registration for Enterprises’ (The Revised Provisions) recently. The main contents include: Less requirements on the approval items The approval items have been divided into the pre-registration approval items and the post-registration approval items. The enterprise’s registration procedure could be speed up by such arrangement, and the enterprise could initiate the other non-approval items in advance. The Revised Provisions has deleted the requirement on the operation period,…

The ‘Amendment’ was adopted at the Meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on August 29, 2015. There are several articles shall be paid attention to. Agreement shall prevail, but there is a special occasion Like the ‘Patent Law’, the ‘Amendment’ has prescribed that the agreement on the reward and remuneration shall prevail. However, for those R&D institutions that are set up by the State, colleges and universities, the standard for the reward and remuneration shall be no less than the statutory minimum standard as prescribed in the ‘Amendment’. The statutory…