Tag: subnational actors

December 19, 2022
This is the last in a four-part series that has looked inter alia at debates surrounding China’s protection of foreign intellectual property (IP) rights (IPR), detailed China’s problematic fulfillment of its IPR commitments, and examined various factors potentially driving China’s poor compliance with its IPR obligations.  The focus of this...
September 21, 2022
  In my last blog, I detailed China’s continuing shortcomings with protecting intellectual property (IP) rights (IPR) and the emergence of new challenges.  The question arises as to why these problems persist even though it has been more than 20 years since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), is...