On Wednesday, 1 April, China announced that it had withdrawn its anti-suit injunction policy after it was determined that the policy did not comply with WTO rules.
This ruling was handed down by a WTO appeal tribunal last July in the dispute between the EU and China concerning the enforcement of intellectual property rights (DS611) (see EUROPE B13685A10).
For the European Commission, this decision constitutes an important victory for the EU’s ‘standard essential patent’ holders,...