At a speech on Monday, FBI Director Christopher Wray offered remarks on the threats posed by the Chinese government to U.S. businesses and individuals, focusing heavily on issues of economic espionage.

The National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) recently met with major music companies, copyright holding companies, and digital music platforms, and asked the relevant parties to not sign exclusive copyright licensing agreements, unless in special circumstances. This is another signal sent by the Chinese government, after it cracked down on

In a recent IP dispute, China’s Tianjin Binhai People’s Court ruled that American company Apple was responsible for unauthorized content published by third-party apps in the App Store. As a result, Apple was fined 12 million yuan (USD 1.9 million), according to a report [http://www.cs.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today on the Nominations of Maria Pagan to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Geneva Office) and Christopher Wilson to be USTR's Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator (as well as Brent Neiman to be Deputy Under Secretary of the

Following an EU request for China to provide more information about judicial decisions and regulations related to patents, China has now provided a response. However, it does not seem to directly address all of the EU questions, and the EU may press China again on these points going forward. As

In late July, we wrote about [https://www.chinatrademonitor.com/usitc-institutes-section-337-investigation-on-silicon-photovoltaic-cells-and-modules/] the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision to institute a Section 337 investigation [https://www.usitc.gov/intellectual_property/about_section_337.htm] of certain silicon photovoltaic cells and modules with nanostructures. As a brief follow-up, three

On July 14, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) announced [https://usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2021/er0714ll1797.htm] that it had voted to institute a Section 337 investigation [https://www.usitc.gov/intellectual_property/about_section_337.htm] of certain silicon photovoltaic cells and modules with nanostructures,