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Before the emergency of the computer and internet, the majority of business models are carried out entirely or partly by the individual’s behavior, which says the pure business methods. Such business models would be deemed as the ‘intellectual activity and method’ which is prescribed in Article 25 of the ‘Patent Law’, and it could not be patentable. With the development of the computer and internet, more and more business models are carried out by ‘individual’ and ‘Computer’, ‘individual’ and ‘Internet’, or even ‘Computer’ and ‘Internet’. Because more and more techniques are applied into those business models, the founder of such…

Mr. Kang was the vice general manager of Company A. One day, the company found that he had provided the false personal information about education background, so it dissolved the labor contract with him. Later on, Kang brought the dispute to the labor arbitration committee. The committee determined that the company failed to require Kang to provide any relevant documents to prove his education background, or verify Kang’s education background with the relevant departments. Finally, Company A was deemed as dissolving the labor contract illegally. According to Article 8 of the ‘Labor Contract Law’, the employer has the right to…

From March to September 2015, within 6 months, the State Council has mentioned that the relevant departments shall analyze on how to apply the IP protection on the new forms of the creative innovations including the business model, in 3 files, the ‘Some Opinions concerning Deepening Structural and Mechanism Reform and Accelerating the Implementation of the Innovation Driving Development Strategy’, the ‘Opinions of the State Council on Several Policies and Measures for Vigorously Advancing the Popular Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ and the ‘Plan for the Implementation of Deepening the Science and Technology System Reform’. The business model (hereinafter referred to ‘BM’)is…

Lee was the employee of a Shanghai Company. One day, he was injured within the working hour, and was sent to the hospital immediately. 4 months later, Lee left the hospital. After another 3 months, Lee was assessed as the 10th Grade Disability. The company refused to pay the 3 months’ salary after Lee had left the hospital. Lee brought the dispute to the labor arbitration committee. Finally, the labor arbitration committee supported Lee’s claim. According to Article 33 of the ‘Regulations on Work-Related Injury Insurances’, the suspension-of-work-with-pay period (‘SWP Period’) is a welfare benefit for the employee who has…

The ‘Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Patent Law’ has prescribed that the agreement on the reward and remuneration for service invention (hereinafter refers to ‘Service Invention Rewards’) shall prevail, which further prescribed that an employer could make an agreement with the employee, or prescribe in the internal rules and regulations on the payment methods and amount of ‘Service Invention Rewards’.( hereinafter refers to ‘Agreement’) (Note: the internal rules and regulations are determined after the consultation with the labor union or employee representative on the basis of equality, so it is essentially a supplementary to the labor contract) Recently,…

Several engineers of Company A downloaded drawing software from the internet. A few months later, Company A received a Lawyer’s Letter from Company B, in which it stated that Company A had downloaded Company B’s software, Company B required Company A to pay the license fee amount up to RMB 1 million. The evidence of using was attached to the Lawyer’s Letter. Company A insisted that it was the employees’ personal behavior, so it refused to pay the license fee. Then Company B filed the lawsuit to the court, under the mediation of the court, finally, the two parties reached…