CHINA
July 30, 2015
China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce finally has released its guidelines on the application of the PRC Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") to intellectual property rights ("Guidelines").
The Guidelines will come into force on August 1, 2015. Among other things, it rules on safe harbor for technology agreements, it prohibits specific contractual clauses, it includes a list of conducts that are prohibited for patent pools with a dominant position and contain specific provisions dealing with the standard essential patents context.