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The Arbitrability Of The Validity Of Chinese IP Rights in Hong Kong

The validity of IP Rights in Hongkong is arbitrable

With effect from January 2018, the Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance was changed to make all IP issues arbitrable in Hong Kong. Both IP (which includes all registered and unregistered rights) and the scope of a dispute are defined extremely broadly in the Ordinance (to include disputes that are incidental to the main dispute). Most significantly […]