Asia: Intellectual Property

A recent Chinese court judgment clarifies the legal criteria for protecting confidential technical information when employees move to competitors. The case examines how enterprises can safeguard proprietary product design parameters, manufacturing tolerances, and structural specifications that provide competitive advantage but may not qualify for patent protection.

India’s semiconductor ecosystem is expanding across chip design, fabrication, packaging, testing and related technology services. As semiconductor companies build increasingly valuable portfolios of chip designs, manufacturing processes and proprietary know-how, semiconductor intellectual property protection in India is becoming an important component of technology and commercial strategy.

江蘇省で2026年に実施された侵害・模倣品の一斉廃棄活動では、マスク、衣料品、自動車部品など15大分類、約70トンの侵害・模倣品が環境に配慮し

中国の広州知識産権法院（知財裁判所）はこのほど、特許侵害訴訟で、特許権者が明示的に許諾していなくても、その行為などから許諾の意思があったと認められる「黙示的許諾」について、判断基準を示した。最高人民法院（最高裁）も第二審で一審判決を支持し、判決が確定した。

浙江省知識産権局はこのほど、「浙江省海外知的財産リスク警戒ガイドライン（試行）」および「浙江省海外知的財産紛争対応支援業務規範ガイドライン」を発表した。海外知的財産のりスク管理および緊急対応体制を強化し、紛争対応支援の手続きと運用を標準化することで、企業の

Businesses building AI products on third-party models face a critical intellectual property challenge: determining what parts of their AI systems can actually be protected when competitors have access to the same underlying models. This analysis explores where protectable value sits in AI workflows, from data retrieval and validation processes to system integration and deployment architecture, and why patent strategy must focus on the commercially defensible elements rather than just the AI model itself.

On September 22, 2026, the National Parliament of East Timor unanimously approved Government Bill No. 18/VI (2nd), concerning the Industrial Property Code, with 49 votes in favour, no votes against, and no abstentions.

浙江省知識産権局はこのほど、「浙江省海外知的財産リスク警戒ガイドライン（試行）」および「浙江省海外知的財産紛争対応支援業務規範ガイドライン」を発表した。海外知的財産のりスク管理および緊急対応体制を強化し、紛争対応支援の手続きと運用を標準化することで、企業の

Generative AI can now reproduce a person's face, voice and mannerisms with a fidelity that the average viewer cannot tell apart from reality. What began as novelty content—face-swapped videos, synthetic voice clips circulated for entertainment—has, since 2023, become a live commercial and reputational threat.

Generative AI can now reproduce a person's face, voice and mannerisms with a fidelity that the average viewer cannot tell apart from reality. What began as novelty content—face-swapped videos, synthetic voice clips circulated for entertainment—has, since 2023, become a live commercial and reputational threat.

Discovering that someone has copied your photograph, article, video, artwork, music or other original work and published it without permission can raise an immediate question: what is copyright violation, and what can you actually do about it?

Generative AI can now assist with campaign concepts, generate images and videos, alter backgrounds and styling, create advertising copy, and produce market-specific versions of a campaign at remarkable speed. For fashion brands operating across multiple markets, the commercial attraction is obvious: more content, faster production and greater localization