Essentials of Intellectual Property Rights

Introduction

While undertaking economic, social and judicial transformations unprecedented both in speed and scope, China is finding its ways to establish an IPRs’ regime with its own characteristics. Could China maintain its distinctive IPRs regime while honoring the international IPRs conventions? Have rights of IP holders been duly protected in China? How would China further enhance its IPRs legislation and enforcement in the near future? Handong Wu, China’s leading IPRs scholar, offers his insights from a nongovernmental perspective in hopes of providing readers, both general and academic, a vivid reflection of the IPRs system in China.