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Legal Protection for Advertising Slogan
Advertising slogans are commonly used in marketing and product promotion. The enterprises tend to promote their culture and products by adopting unique advertising slogans. In principle, they can be the protected by the PRC Copyright Law and the PRC Trademark Law. This article will discuss the legal protection for advertising slogans from the perspective of the Trademark Law and the Copyright Law and their practice respectively.
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What Full-components Disclosure Labeling Means to Technical Secret and How to React
The Administrative Rules on Cosmetic Labeling and the Administrative Rules on Food Labeling promulgated by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China ("AQSIQ") provide more detailed and stringent requirements on the specifications of labeling for cosmetics and food product ingredients and require that the manufacturers must disclose all of the components of the cosmetics products. As a result, conflict between the right-to-know of consumers and the protection of technical secret would become more intensified in the future. This article discusses the relevant provisions of the AQSIQ Rules with particular reference to the relevant EU laws, and tries to offer some coping strategy to the above questions.
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Protecting Biological and Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property Rights in China (Part I of II)
Under China's existing legal framework, biological and pharmaceutical intellectual property is protected by patents, trademarks, trade secrets, as well as an unique measures of protection offered through administrative means. This article outlines China's legal framework for biological and pharmaceutical related IPRs with view to present a clear picture of China's unique IPR protection system and related IPR enforcement issues.