Among the cross-border contracts between Chinese and foreign enterprises, the most common are purchase and sale contracts for goods, service contracts, royalty contracts and so on. In this article, we take the royalty contracts as an example to provide some tips on how to formulate tax clauses therefore.

In February 2025, the Shanghai High People’s Court issued the Compilation of Controversial Issues in the Application of Labor Dispute Laws, providing clear guidance on a long-debated question: “How should employers handle situations where, after consecutively signing two or more fixed-term labor contracts with an employee, the employee demands an open-ended labor contract upon expiration of the last contract?” This marked a significant shift in Shanghai’s judicial practice.

Know-how is the core asset of an enterprise and the foundation to maintain its competitiveness in the market, so the protection and management of know-how is the most important part of the daily management of an enterprise. Even so, know-how disputes often occur after technicians’ departure, the main reason behind is that the technology can bring great economic value, making technicians always try to breach the obligations they owned to their ex-employers, and even to infringe others’ know-how illegally. Therefore, this article will mainly introduce methods of “remedies after incidents”, i.e., the follow-up investigation on the application of the know-how known to departing technicians.