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This article discusses the Cyberspace Administration of China's (“CAC”) May 30, 2023 release of the long-awaited “Guidelines for the Filing of Standard Contracts Regarding Export of Personal Information (First Edition).

The guidelines provide clarity for organizations that are looking to rely on Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to transfer personal information collected in Mainland China (“PRC Data”) to an offshore recipient.

This article examines, from an English law perspective, the legal issues you need to be familiar with whether you are engaged in data scraping (either directly or through a third party), or if you are concerned that your content is being scraped and exploited without your consent.

This article discusses China's new regulation on generative artificial intelligence. The new regulations are coming into light in the midst of new generative AI tools being introduced by several major Chinese technology providers.

This also marks China as one of the first countries globally that has direct government oversight over this nascent area of technology.

This sample invention disclosure form can be completed by scientists/inventors/creators to explain the item or technology they have developed. This form can be used to help determine whether an invention is sufficiently unique to be patented.

This is a form trademark license agreement prepared from the perspective of a licensor looking to promote its brand and its own products by granting a license to a licensee to use the brand on its various products and promotional items.

The Eversheds Sutherland European Dictionary of Selected Legal Terms has been specifically designed with US and UK corporate counsel in mind. It brings together in a handy pocket format a guide to more than 1000 legal and commercial expressions commonly encountered or used by US and UK corporate counsel in business and in litigation situations in Europe. By covering these terms in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, it extends to the European markets which directly serve more than 300 million people.

Being sued for patent infringement can strike fear into the heart of the most seasoned in-house counsel. But some patent owners seek to resolve issues of alleged infringement outside of litigation, and this typically starts with a demand letter. Initially published December 2, 2022; republished March 30, 2023.

This is a sample trademark license agreement, for rights to use trademarks in the United States in connection with the advertisement, promotion, manufacture and distribute of goods bearing the trademarks, and for the payment or royalties.

This is a sample copyright assignment agreement, under which a marketing firm that was hired by a company to create a logo assigns the copyright to the logo to the client company. 

This is a sample limited copyright license, between a corporation is based in New York (as licensor) and an individual (as licensee), for the non-exclusive, non-transferable, one-time right and license to reproduce, publish, display and used the copyrighted material for a specific purpose.