Special Focus

Tusha Malhotra and Tanvi Bhatnagar of Anand and Anand say technological advances such as those in AI are presenting new challenges in protecting the personality rights of celebrities in India and necessitate a delicate balancing act

Vivien Chan and Anna Mae Koo of Vivien Chan & Co consider the big picture regarding China’s Anti-Unfair Competition Law and explain how its broad application effectively addresses intellectual property infringements

Ruixian Liu of Kangxin Partners analyses the key changes under the latest edition of China’s Guidelines for Patent Examination, which particularly concern developments in new fields such as AI and big data

With the number of Chinese standard-essential patent cases set to increase, Guanyang Yao of Liu Shen & Associates analyses two judgments that are expected to be used as precedents in royalty rate-setting lawsuits

Shengjie Piao and Quan Kang of DEQI Intellectual Property Law Corporation provide a summary of the key changes after the introduction of the implementation rules and examination guidelines of China’s revised Patent Law

A draft revision of China’s Trademark Law demonstrates the country’s commitment to crack down on malicious trademark registrations, say Xue Li, Jingjing Wu, and Mingzhao Yang of AFD China Intellectual Property Law Office