The American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China) recently released The 2024 American Business in China White Paper (hereinafter referred to as the White Paper). The White Paper provides the U.S. and Chinese governments with more than 100 core policy recommendations that are industry-specific or cross-sectoral.

The White Paper (2024) is divided into 37 chapters, including 21 chapters focusing on industry-specific topics, including agriculture, banking, education, food and beverage, information and communications technology, insurance, and healthcare; 11 chapters exploring industrial policy and market access-related content, including intellectual property rights, competition law, compliance, procurement, and taxation; and five chapters focusing on local regions, including Central China, Northeast China, Southwest China, Shanghai and Tianjin.

Invited by the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China), Mr. Charles Feng, Senior Partner of Tahota and Director of the International Business Department of the Beijing Office, participated as the author of the IPR section of the White Paper together with lawyers from Perkins Coie and other law firms. Mr. Feng gave a detailed explanation of the progress made in China’s IPR legislation over the past year. In particular, he briefly analyzed the impact on IPR protection of the promulgation of administrative regulations, such as the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services and the Trademark Administrative Law Enforcement Evidence Standards Provisions (Draft for Comments). In particular, Mr. Feng also analyzed and explained the contents of the Revised Trademark Law (Draft for Comments) in detail.

In addition, Feng also especially explained topics including the network intellectual property infringement, trademark malicious registration and the application of trademark law absolute provisions. Finally, Mr. Feng made an in-depth analysis of the latest judgments made by the courts in Zhejiang and Sichuan on the copyright infringement cases related to generative artificial intelligence.

Mr. Charles Feng graduated from Duke University and China Foreign Affairs University with a Master of Laws degree. Mr. Feng has extensive experience in contentious and non-contentious cases related to intellectual property, antitrust cases related to intellectual property, as well as cybersecurity and personal information protection. Over the past two decades, Mr. Feng has represented a large number of foreign-related intellectual property infringement and right confirmation litigation cases and unfair competition cases, and has participated in the drafting, negotiation and execution of intellectual property transaction contracts. At the same time, Mr. Feng has provided legal opinions on network security and data protection for many enterprises, and has rich experience in the fields of network security and data compliance, personal information protection, etc. He is one of the lawyers who have paid attention to and engaged in the legal business related to data security and protection and cross-border transmission of data of enterprises in the early days. Mr. Feng’s working languages are Chinese, English and Japanese.

Charles Feng’s team consists of more than ten attorneys and patent attorneys graduated from well-known law schools at home and abroad, all of whom have master’s or doctoral degrees in law, and can provide clients with legal services in the fields of intellectual property rights, data protection, foreign investment, and civil and commercial dispute resolution in Chinese, English, Japanese, and French.