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Quick Guide: IP & IT
Practical Law UK Practice Note Overview 6-545-8905 (Approx. 6 pages)
A quick guide to the China intellectual property and information technology topic collection, which contains resources to help lawyers design a China intellectual property strategy, customise, draft and review major intellectual property contracts where the counterparty is performing its obligations in China, register and enforce the principal categories of intellectual property rights in China and license intellectual property into China.
IP & IT Topic Collection
How can you protect your valuable IP in China? What steps do you need to take to register the transfer of a trademark or patents in China? How does Chinese law protect confidential information and trade and state secrets?
Resources under the IP & IT topic collection help lawyers understand the framework for protecting IP in China, to draft, localise or comment on IP and IT contracts to be performed in China, and to enforce IP rights in China.
This collection includes:
- Standard documents and drafting notes for registering and protecting IP including trademark application and certificate of legal representation, trademark assignment, trademark co-existence agreement, patent assignment, patent and know-how licence, joint R&D agreement and more.
- Practice notes on IP protection in China, including how to protect your IP from employees, competitors and squatters, Chinese law on confidentiality (including trade and state secrets) and patent litigation in China.
- Stage-by-stage guide supported by case studies of how to conduct an anti-counterfeiting enforcement in China, covering administrative, civil and criminal sanctions, the risks and opportunities of each and practical guidance on which entities to target for maximum effect.
- Model cease and desist letters to send to infringers based in China including drafting notes explaining the law and practice of combating trade mark infringements, patent infringements, copyright infringements and unfair competition (equivalent to the tort of 'passing off' in common law jurisdictions), together with a power of attorney authorising enforcement actions and supporting documents.
- Checklists for anti-counterfeiting actions and trademark registration.
For full list of resources in this collection, see IP & IT topic home page.
All standard documents and standard clauses are available in English-Chinese bilingual versions. For a full list of the bilingual resources, see Practical Law China bilingual content.
To download the Word version of each standard document and standard clause in Chinese:
- Follow the link to the English version of the document that you want.
- Click the Chinese language version link at the bottom of the abstract of the English version.