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10 January 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

China tops EU list of IP’s ‘problem’ countries

The “scale and persistence” of IP right problems in China, including forced technology transfer and bad faith trademark registrations, have kept the country at the top of the EU’s list of priority countries.

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