China seen giving close scrutiny to merger of Qualcomm, Broadcom

A potential mega-merger between chipmaker Broadcom and US rival Qualcomm Inc is likely to face stern scrutiny in China, ...

New regulations for Singles’ Day shopping promotion

With the Singles' Day shopping promotion on November 11 fast approaching, some Chinese government agencies have announce...

China revises law to protect fair competition

China's top legislature Saturday adopted a revision to its law against unfair competition. The legislation was adopted a...

Apple files $1 billion lawsuit against chip supplier Qualcomm

Apple Inc filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the US government filed a lawsu...

Joint Comments of 3 Sections of The American Bar Association on The SAIC Draft Guide on Anti-monopoly Law Enforcement in The Field of IP Rights

Joint Comments of 3 Sections of The American Bar Association on The SAIC Draft Rules on The Prohibition of Abuses of IP Rights for The Purposes of Eli

Joint Response of 4 Sections of The American Bar Association to The NDRC Questionnaire on IP Misuse Antitrust Guideline

Joint Comments of 3 Sections of The American Bar Association on The Anti-Monopoly Guideline on IP Abuse(Draft for Comments)

Cracking the Qualcomm anti-monopoly case

Xu Kunlin headed the investigation into the semiconductor giant, which was fined $975 m, and now talks about his role at...

NDRC drafts guideline on IP monopolies

The National Development and Reform Commission recently began drafting a guideline for regulations on the misuse of inte...

Fine for Qualcomm fair for the market

Criticizing the 6.088-billion-yuan ($975 million) fine imposed on chipmaker Qualcomm for violating China's monopoly laws...

High royalties key reason behind Qualcomm fine: NDRC

The "unfair" and "excessively high" royalties Qualcomm Inc collected from Chinese smartphone makers were the key factors...

The First Mobile Internet Lawsuit on Anti-monopoly on Trial

On November 28th 2014, Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court opened a court session hearing the case of Beijing Em...

Qualcomm faces $1b fine, cut in fees

China has reportedly completed the anti-monopoly investigation into the US chip producer Qualcomm Inc and the results ar...

Qihoo 360 v. Tencent Final Verdict Released

The final verdict of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd (Qihoo 360) suing Tencent Technology Co., Ltd (Tencent) for industry m...

First mobile Internet monopoly case

The Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court will hear "the first monopolization suit in China's mobile Internet busines...

Antitrust probes need to be more open

Multinationals are having their share of troubles because of enforcement actions initiated by Chinese government authori...

Fairness of anti-trust can't be doubted

There is nothing wrong with the government - central and local - offering some favorable policies and rules to attract f...

Antitrust probes need to be more open

Multinationals are having their share of troubles because of enforcement actions initiated by Chinese government authori...

Chinese antitrust agency probes Microsoft

An anti-monopoly investigation of Microsoft Corp in the Chinese market is underway, but an analyst with a New York-based...

InterDigital vows cooperation in China's anti-trust probe

BEIJING - US patent licensing company InterDigital Inc has promised to work with China's anti-trust authorities in the h...

NDRC investigates Qualcomm on anti-trust grounds

Qualcomm Inc, the world's biggest cellphone chip maker, is under an anti-trust investigation by the National Development...

Shanghai High Court Held Johnson & Johnson Liable for Illegal Vertical Retail Price Fixing Agreement under the Anti-Monopoly Law

Shanghai High Court Held Johnson & Johnson Liable for Illegal Vertical Retail Price Fixing Agreement under the Anti-Mono...

The IP battle between Qihoo and Tencent steps into a new stage

Once upon a time, Zhou Hongyi, CEO of Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd. (Qihoo) and Pony Ma, CEO of Tencent, Inc. (Tencent)...

Basic IP Principles of Antitrust Law

IP is considered the most effective tool to promote innovation. Law creates and protects intellectual property with the ...

On the abuse of IPR in the Anti-Monopoly Law of China

The Anti-Monopoly Law of China (“AML”), as adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Aug...

Antitrust publishing lawsuit heard by Shanghai court

A Beijing-based online book publisher has accused a local competitor of abusing its market-leading position by telling t...

Specific guidelines set for new Anti-Monopoly Law

BEIJING, Aug. 6 --The first regulation that sets specific guidelines for the Anti-Monopoly Law was announced by the Stat...

China's first anti-monopoly law takes effect

China's first anti-monopoly law took effect on Friday, viewed as a milestone of the country's efforts in promoting a fai...

Chinese courts urged to study new, "complicated" anti-monopoly law

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- With China's anti-monopoly law taking effect on Friday, the country's Supreme People's Cour...