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Courts issued only about 33,000 personal safety protection orders in ten years under the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. This article explains the evidence needed to apply, what protection orders can order, and why they are not a trump card in divorce litigation.
A gas company won a complete victory against three abuse-of-dominance claims, but the Supreme People's Court appended six non-binding recommendations for improvement. This article analyzes those six items, the evidence-retention challenge they pose, and the three evidentiary pillars that actually decided the case, offering a practical compliance checklist for public utilities.
Wuhan Jiang'an District People's Court recognized an AI-generated short drama as a protected audiovisual work and, for the first time, included token compute costs and commercial AI tool licence fees in the damages award. The article explains what the ruling means for AI creators, which evidence to retain across ownership, generation and cost layers, and why evidence retention at the time of creation decides who wins.
A Texas jury found Bambu Lab willfully infringed four Stratasys 3D printing patents, awarding USD 27.6 million, while the UPC Hague Local Division refused a preliminary injunction over the same patent family. The case shows why patent risk must be calculated market by market, claim by claim, and why FTO searches, entity structuring, and content-community copyright exposure matter before going global.
China's revised Trademark Law (9 chapters, 87 articles) takes effect 1 January 2027. On 28 September 2026 CNIPA released two draft implementing documents for public comment (deadline 12 November 2026). Key takeaways for foreign rights holders: a decision issued after 1 Jan 2027 applies the new law regardless of when the application was filed; the opposition period shrinks from 3 months to 2 months; registrations unused for three years may be cancelled ex officio; Article 56 penalises misleading use of registered marks; licensing and trademark-agent compliance are tightened. Includes a five-item action checklist.
A Chinese IP lawyer analyzes the Yangtze Memory v. Micron Munich injunction, explaining why German utility models—unexamined but enforceable—offer Chinese companies a fast, low-cost offensive tool. The article details the separation procedure, key China-Germany differences, and a five-step playbook for global patent strategy.
A court found the same Chinese speech dataset to be a trade secret at first instance but not on appeal, yet the defendant still paid RMB 100,000 for unfair competition. This first-of-its-kind data IP registration certificate case establishes a three-tier framework—compilation work, trade secret, or competitive rights and interests—and offers five input compliance checks for AI projects.
A daily-goods company acquired an "electronic dog" patent and sued robot maker Unitree just five days later — swinging its claim between 500 yuan and 80 million yuan. China's Supreme People's Court called the conduct "carefully calculated and endlessly capricious" and ordered only 80,000 yuan in compensation. Six trolling signals, seven countermeasures (patent invalidation, counterclaim for malicious litigation, declaratory judgment of non-infringement), and a self-check for companies planning an IPO.
On September 7, 2026, China's Supreme People's Court released the first judicial guidelines on AI disputes (Fa Fa [2026] No. 10, 24 articles). Fault-based liability as the default; AI face-swap and digital-revival red lines; training on public personal data; safe-harbor rules for generative AI; product liability limited to physical carriers; autonomous driving; AI-generated content and data rights; new evidence rules — plus two issues deliberately left open. Action checklist inside.
The Supreme People's Court's IP Judicial Protection Implementation Plan (2026–2030): 552,600 IP cases accepted in 2025, including 908 data ownership and transaction disputes — up 25.6% in a year. Two self-check tables: how to classify your data assets (public/enterprise/personal, with the DataTang case, the new data provision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, and data pledge financing) and a five-question test of whether your non-compete agreement is actually enforceable.
Luckin Coffee won in Thailand — total compensation exceeds 95 million baht, the highest ever recorded in a Thai IP case. But the lawsuit dragged on for 5 years, and Luckin once lost a round. The real value of the case: it prices out, item by item, the true cost of delayed trademark strategy — 6 things export brands must do now.
> He Zigang | Intellectual Property Lawyer | Aipunajie·Mili·Naje > August 2026 Introduction In 2026, a small company doing software, content, and services laid out two ledgers: one reading "USD 20/mon
【IP Palace Intrigue】 --- Dear readers, today we're not discussing anything else—just a fight. Not the kind with flashing blades from martial arts novels, but the most thrilling "duel" in the intellect
On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal in the *Thaler* case—meaning that, in the United States, works generated entirely by AI are not eligible for copyright protection.
> Source: China Intellectual Property Society, National Guidance Center for Overseas Intellectual Property Dispute Response, *Survey of Chinese Enterprises' Overseas Intellectual Property Disputes (20
By 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will embed AI agents (Gartner), and China's enterprise-grade AI agent market will exceed RMB 48 billion. However, IDC's concurrent survey poured cold water on t
We are pleased to announce: Meili Law Firm Changping Branch has recently been officially approved for establishment. Why Changping The Changping District is a core node of Beijing's northern science a
Since 2023, 1.273 million applications for "calculated trademarks" have been rejected—the registration end has been sealed off. But what about the usage end? Effective January 1, 2027, Article 56 of t
There are 145 days left until January 1, 2027. On that day, the newly revised Trademark Law will officially take effect—your unused trademarks may be directly revoked by the authorities, your "ancient
Same SEP case, two courts, nearly double the damages. How comparable-license and top-down approaches diverge in FRAND royalty valuation — and three actions for Chinese companies.
China's latest court rulings, copyright registration practices, and enterprise compliance strategies for AI-generated content in 2026.
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How three IP brands — Najie, Aipunajie, and Mili — work together to provide end-to-end intellectual property services across 61 countries.