On July 10, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced the launch of a trade barrier investigation against the European Union's Foreign Subsidies Regulation, which has recently been used several times against Chinese companies.

Last week, China's Ministry of Finance announced that it would suspend tariff concessions for another batch of imports from Taiwan, as a follow-up on Taiwan's "discriminatory trade bans and restrictions on mainland products."

In recent rulings, Chinese courts have found that Chinese ice cream shops violated the trademark of U.S. ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs and supported the request for 1 million yuan compensation.

Chinese courts recently granted punitive penalties of four times the amount of damages in a trademark infringement case involving Singaporean fashion brand CHARLES & KEITH. This is one of the rare cases where such a high level of punitive penalties have been granted.

After a recent Chinese court ruling that sets a global license rate for 4G and 5G phones, Chinese phone maker OPPO and Finnish electronics company Nokia signed a global patent cross-licensing agreement, ending years-long legal disputes over patents for 4G and 5G technologies.

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) recently issued a ruling in Advanced Codec Technologies (ACT) v. OPPO, setting the license fees in China for six standard essential patents (SEPs) related to an audio coding standard. The Court ordered OPPO to pay 15.4 million yuan (approximately US$

Last November, a Chinese court set a global FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) rate for a standard essential patent (SEP) in a dispute between Chinese phone maker OPPO and Finnish multinational company Nokia. This is the first Chinese court decision setting global FRAND rates for 5G phones. A summary of