Legal Analysis

New Trends in Copyright Technical Measures Protection: Insights from the Switch Chip Hacking Case

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New Trends in Copyright Technical Measures Protection: Insights from the Switch Chip Hacking Case

Event Review: The Industrial Ecology Behind Hardcore Hacking In 2023, a grassroots court in Lianyungang City issued a ruling in China’s first criminal case involving the hacking of Switch chips. The six defendants involved sold hacked chips and provided soldering modification services, bypassing the legitimate verification system of Nintendo game consoles, allowing the devices to … Read more

Reading and Translating Case Names

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The reading and translation of case names are very important for legal English. For example, the case Marbury v. Madison can be translated as “Marbury v. Madison” case. The lowercase “v.” is an abbreviation for versus. It means that one person is suing or prosecuting another person. Usually, there is an abbreviation of the case … Read more

Insights on ICC Ruling: Arbitration Case No. 23611/DDA

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Insights on ICC Ruling: Arbitration Case No. 23611/DDA

By Wu Ying, Li Yu, Gong Yiduo, Zheng Junwei, Zhou Fangyuan, Tian Tong Law Firm This article contains12,021words, estimated reading time21minutes On January 1, 2019, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration proposed in its “Guidelines for Parties and Arbitral Tribunals on Participation in Arbitration Under the ICC Arbitration Rules” (“ICC Guidelines”) … Read more

Conditions for Customer Lists to Constitute Trade Secrets

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Conditions for Customer Lists to Constitute Trade Secrets

Conditions for Customer Lists to Constitute Trade Secrets By/Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court, Zhejiang Province Ma Hong (Second Instance Case Handler) Hong Jing 【Judicial Summary】 To constitute a trade secret, a customer list must reflect certain competitive advantages due to the specific customer names, contact details, and the unique transaction habits, intentions, and contents that differentiate … Read more

Legal Insights: Smart Home Devices and Privacy Breaches – A Case Study

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Legal Insights: Smart Home Devices and Privacy Breaches - A Case Study

Introduction What was seen in the mobile app was not the owner’s pet, but the real-time view of a stranger’s living room. The security risks of smart home devices are quietly entering our lives. 1. Incident Review Recently, Ms. Chen from Wuhan experienced an abnormality with her camera-equipped smart feeder: the device automatically dispensed food, … Read more

Exploration of Originality in Compilations

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Exploration of Originality in Compilations

Today, I received the civil judgment of the second instance from the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court regarding my lawsuit against others for infringing on my work “Summary of Shenzhen Intellectual Property Funding Policies (Part)” published on this public account on December 8, 2017 (although the judgment does not recognize it as a work, after all, … Read more