China has finalized a new mandatory national standard that effectively bans flush or hidden electric vehicle (EV) door handles beginning in 2027, a move aimed at improving safety and post-crash rescue. The move could have a particular impact on U.S. electric vehicle producer Tesla, as well as a few

The European Commission requested consultations with China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) today, arguing that "China has empowered its courts to set binding worldwide royalty rates for EU standard essential patents, without the consent of the patent owner," leading to violations of the WTO's TRIPS

China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has recently issued new guidelines on standard-essential patents (SEP) as they relate to antitrust, signaling a more stringent regulatory approach to this critical area of intellectual property.

China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) recently contacted Avanci, which owns patent pools, in relation to antitrust concerns. Even though there is no clear sign of antitrust violations, the company's practices have been controversial.

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$

At a recent WTO Committee on Trade-Related Investment Measures meeting, Japan brought up previously raised issues related to office device standards and China's procurement law, but China argued that this committee was not the appropriate place to discuss them.

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