1. On June 27, 2025, the amendment to the Anti-Unfair Competition Law has been passed and will take effect on October 15, 2025 in China. <<The main amendments include the addition of eight new clauses, bringing the total number of clauses to 41, covering various aspects of unfair competition behavior. The amendment explicitly prohibits new forms of online unfair competition such as “illegal data acquisition” and “malicious transactions”. It also sets a precedent by prohibiting “involution-style competition” in the internet sector, requiring platform operators not to force or indirectly require platform sellers to sell below cost price. Additionally, it strengthens the regulation of commercial bribery, making it clear that neither organizations nor individuals may accept bribes in transactions. Lastly, it improves regulations on confusing behaviors, prohibiting the unauthorized use of influential new media account names, application names, etc., to prevent confusion.>> <<https://ipc.court.gov.cn/zh-cn/news/view-4440.htmlhttps://ipc.court.gov.cn/zh-cn/news/view-4440.html >>
2. On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court released 8 typical cases of unfair competition. <<The 8 typical cases released involve important legal issues such as counterfeiting confusion, infringement of trade secrets, commercial defamation, the identification of unfair competition behaviors online, and the application of general provisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, covering a wide range of sectors including e-commerce platforms, car maintenance services, as well as new technologies and new business formats such as artificial intelligence and live streaming platforms. These cases mainly reflect the following three characteristics: adhering to strict protection to maintain fair competition order; resolutely punishing unfair competition behaviors such as “passing off” to serve high-quality development; and properly adjudicating new types of disputes to guide the standardized development of new business formats.>> <<https://www.court.gov.cn/zixun/xiangqing/475691.html>>
3. On July 31, 2025, the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme Court published a typical case regarding how to determine the partial priority of an invention patent - Case (2024) Zui Gao Fa Zhi Xing Zhong Nos. 126 & 127. <<To determine whether priority is established, it is necessary to examine whether the content defined by the claims in the later application can be directly and undoubtedly derived from the patent documents of the earlier application. If there are multiple claims in the claim set, or if a single claim defines multiple parallel and independent technical solutions, whether the priority is established should be assessed and determined separately for each claim/ technical solution. Therefore, even if an independent claim enjoys priority, if its dependent claim further defines additional technical features that lead to different protection scopes, forming different technical solutions, it must be legally ascertained and determined whether the dependent claim can enjoy priority. >> <<https://ipc.court.gov.cn/zh-cn/news/view-4542.html>>
5. On September 5, 2025, the Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme Court published a typical case regarding the method of making 'further limiting' amendments to the claims in invalidation proceeding- Case No. 2024 Zui Gao Fa Zhi Xing Zhong 1059. <<The method for "further limitation of claims", i.e., amending one allowed claim by incorporating technical feature(s) of another allowed claim, does not imply that the text of the another allowed claim must be copied verbatim. From the perspective of a person skilled in the art, a comprehensive judgment should be made based on the relevance between the added content in the amended claim and the corresponding content recorded in the allowed claim. If the further limited content can be directly and clearly determined from the content recorded in the allowed claim, then such amendment still falls under the category of "further limitation of claims" and should be accepted.>> <<https://ipc.court.gov.cn/zh-cn/news/view-4589.html>>