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The “Population and Family Planning Law of the People’s Republic of China (Amended in 2021)” has come into force on 20 Aug., 2021, in which Article 25 prescribes that the State supports provinces and cities which conditions permit to establish “Parental leave”. Recently, some cities and provinces have successively introduced relevant regulations on “Parental leave” by revising local population and…

High-tech is an important selling point of many products. Several companies even take patent as a focus on product’s packaging or in advertisements. However, improper labeling may commit patent infringement and/or false publicity. Such situation may encounter the dispute on the application of relevant provisions in the “Patent Law” or the “Advertising Law", which may further bring the conflict of…

In order to provide more opportunities for parties which violate laws and are dishonest to correct their illegal or dishonest acts, rebuild credit, and further stimulate the awareness of honest and law-abiding operations, the SAMR has published 3 policies, which are the “Administrative Measures for the List of Subjects with Seriously Illegal or Dishonest Acts under Market Regulation”, the “Provisions…

After ten years discussion, and several drafts, the widely concerned "Personal Information Protection Law" has finally been promulgated and will come into effect on November 1, 2021. As a special law on regulating the protection of personal information (“PI”), the "Personal Information Protection Law" has made relatively comprehensive and systematic articles for the protection of “PI”. Although some articles need…

The reversion of the “Administrative Penalty Law” (“Reversion”) is adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress of the PRC on Jan. 22, 2021, and has been implemented on Jul. 15, 2021. The Reversion has amended many articles, and we chose some articles which are relevantly more important to enterprises for reference. "No…

On June 10, 2021, the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People's Congress passed the "Data Security Law", which will come into force on September 1, 2021. This law is not only the fundamental law in the field of data, but also an important law in the field of national security. However, since most of the…

The “Civil Code” came into effect on Jan. 1, 2021, and the supporting judicial interpretations of the “General Principles of the Civil Law" and the "Contract Law" were abolished at the same time. It takes time for the Supreme People's Court to draft and release the new supporting judicial interpretations of the “Civil Code”. However, the articles in the previous…

On March 12, 2021, the Secretary of the Cyberspace Administration of China, General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, General Office of the Ministry of Public Security, and the General Office of the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly published the “Rules on the Scope of Necessary Personal Information for Common Types of Mobile Internet Applications” (Guo…

On December 30, 2020, the "Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights"(hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") has been reviewed and approved at the 28th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 15th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, and will be implemented on March 1 2021. The "Regulations" has the following highlights: To list a more comprehensive…

A business name is the main factor on distinguishing the market operators. With the development of economy, the market operators are increased, so the rule on the administration of business name is important. However, business names are managed by administrative divisions independently; some market operators would register same or similar business names in different cities, with which those market operators…