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Recent Articles by, or involving, MMLC
MMLC's Fei Dang looks at China's Supreme Court's Interpretation of Aspects of the
PRC Law Against Unfair Competition - 15 April 2022 - [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan reviews CNIPA's New Bad Faith Trademark Application
Examination Rules - 25 February 2022 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China's Joining of WIPO’s Hague System for
Designs - 18 February 2022 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du and Matt Murphy looks at the amendments to China's Seed Law and
implications for plant breeders in China - 10 February 2022 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du takes a look at China's new food and beverage registration requirements
for foreign suppliers - 25 January 2022 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan and Matt Murphy look at China's First Court Ruling on a
Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit - 20 November 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Matthew Murphy looks at Developments in China Customs IP Protection
Seizures in China - 10 November 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Matthew Murphy looks at Aspects of Patent Litigation in
China - 9 November 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at the new CNIPA Guidelines on Trademark Infringement in
China - 1 September 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at China's new Personal Information Protection
Law - 31 August 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Matthew Murphy quoted by Financial Times' Ignites Asia on China's new
Foreign Sanctions Law - 16 June 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at Ten Typical Cases of Trademark Administrative
Protection for 2020 - 17 May 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at the Top 10 Intellectual Property Cases in Chinese Courts
in 2020 - 17 May 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at the Guangdong Higher Court's Recent Ruling in the Lego
Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition Cases - 5 May 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Fei Dang looks at Burberry's Preliminary Injunction Orders in a China IP
matter - 1 May 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at Van Cleef's Four Leaf Clover 3D Trademark and
Infringement in China - 30 April 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at Facial Recognition Technology and Chinese Privacy Law
Issues - 21 April 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at the Recent Alibaba Anti-Trust Law Enforcement Actions in
China - 19 April 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Fei Dang looks at Schneider Electric's Successful Trademark Infringement
Litigation in China - 18 April 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China's Supreme Court draft guidlines on Aspects of Plant
Variety Rights Enforcement Actions - 2 April 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China's new Mobile Apps Data Collection Rules - 2 April 2021
[read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at the 2021 Amendments to China's Patent Law, with a special
focus on Implications for Design Patents - 2 March 2021 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at the 2020 Amendments to China's Copyright
Law - 10 December 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China’s Supreme Court New Evidence Practice Note for
Intellectual Property Cases - 1 December 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Fei Dang looks at Lafite's China IP Five Million Yuan
Judgement - 25 November 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China's Draft Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the
"Internet Platform Economy" - 15 November 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China's New Export Control Law - 20 October 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at The Enforcement of Decisions From Foreign Arbitration
Institutions in China - 30 September 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at New China Guiding Opinion on the Trial of Civil
Cases of IP Involving E-Commerce Platforms - 13 September 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at China's Supreme Court's New Precedent Retrieval
Rules - 3 August 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at Developments in IP protection for AI Creations - 6 July
2020 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at the draft amendments to the PRC Copyright Law - 6 July 2020
[read more]
MMLC's Fei Dang and Sarah Xuan look at China's Supreme Court's April
2020 decision involving Michael Jordan's Image and Trademark - 15
April 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at our recent success in the Moncler opposition case involving a
bad faith filer/quatter in China - 10 April 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at the Latest Developments in the Enforcement of Judgements
Involving Intellectual Property Rights - 26 March 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at Malicious Trademark Applications for Registration of
COVID-19 Related Words in China - 10 March 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Sarah Xuan looks at the Draft Amendments to the Chinese Anti-Monopoly
Law - 19 February 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at Updated Chinese Provisions on Evidence of Civil
Procedures - 12 February 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Fei Dang looks at the recent call for submissions by the Chinese government
concerning data collection by mobile applications in China - 25 January 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Xia Yu looks at the IP aspects of "Phase One" of the US/China Trade "Deal"
- 19 January 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Yu Du looks at the China litigation involving the plant variety rights for the
Sanhong Pomelo - 15 January 2020 [read more]
MMLC's Fei Dang looks at the new Implementing Regulations for the new Foreign
Trade Law - 5 January 2020 [read more]









