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Xiaoling Duan On 17 October 2020 China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, passed the fourth round of amendments to the Patent Law, which will come into effect on 1 June 2021. It has been eight years since the first draft was released to solicit public opinions. This latest set of changes updates China’s patent regime in the following ways. Civil litigation Article 71 introduces a punitive damages regime in the context of wilful infringement, which allows a court to grant at its discretion up to five times the actual losses ...

Richard Freeman, Xiaoying Li The growth of insecure or precarious work has been well-documented, and the OECD notes that “the rights and protections of vulnerable workers falling outside the traditional remit of labour law and social protection should be strengthened” (OECD 2019: 15). Some commentators also note that trade unions play a useful role in reducing worker exploitation and counteracting the monopoly power of the firm (McNicholas et al. 2020). While examples of precarious work can be found all over the globe, a particularly interesting example is provided by Chinese rural-urban ...