As China's innovation-driven development strategy is implemented in greater depth and the development of a unified national market accelerates, the intersection of intellectual property ("IP") and antitrust has become a focal point of legislative, enforcement, and judicial practice. This article presents the overall landscape of IP–antitrust crossover issues in China across three dimensions—fundamental principles, the current state of legislation, and representative cases—and summarizes the monopoly risks that enterprises may incur in exercising their intellectual property rights.
In recent years, the state has introduced a series of unprecedented tax preferential policies for small and micro enterprises, covering multiple taxes including value-added tax (VAT), corporate income tax, individual income tax, and the "six taxes and two fees."Specifically:
With the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) technology, large AI models such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have demonstrated astonishing capabilities in text generation, image creation, and code writing. From AI-generated paintings winning awards in art competitions to articles written by AI provoking controversy in academic circles, whether AI-generated outputs can obtain copyright protection—and how they should be protected—has become a focal issue of shared concern among scholars and practitioners alike.
