A highly relevant development for intellectual property litigation is going on in the PRC: To improve transparency, a uniform application of law, and thus legal predictability towards a commercial rule of law, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has promulgated an opinion on 12 April 2017 that courts in the People’s Republic of China (China) have to take similar cases into account before making a decision. Read further here:
Danny Friedmann, ‘IP in China Closer to Common Law System for the Sake of Uniformity’, JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) forthcoming 2017.