Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-07-01
Form Type: F-4
Source: 0001104659-25-064447
Chunk: 85

Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-01
Form: F-4
Chunk 85
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 copyright protection to internet activities, products disseminated
over the internet, and software products. In addition, the Copyright Law provides for a voluntary registration system administered by
the China Copyright Protection Center. Pursuant to the Copyright Law, an infringer of a copyright is subject to various civil liabilities,
which include ceasing infringement activities, apologizing to the copyright owners, and compensating the loss of the copyright owners.
Infringers of copyrights may also be subject to fines and/or administrative or criminal liabilities in severe situations.

Pursuant to the Computer Software Copyright Protection
Regulations promulgated by the State Council on December 20, 2001, and amended in 2013, the software copyright owner may go through
the registration formalities with a software registration authority recognized by the State Council’s copyright administrative department.
The software copyright owner may authorize others to exercise that copyright and is entitled to receive remuneration.

Trademark Law

Trademarks are protected under the PRC Trademark
Law, which was adopted on August 23, 1982, and subsequently amended in 1993, 2001, 2013, and 2019, and the Implementation Regulations
of the PRC Trademark Law adopted by the State Council in 2002 and most recently amended in 2014. The Trademark Office under the SAMR (formally
known as the State Administration for Industry and Commerce) handles trademark registrations. The Trademark Office grants a ten-year term
to registered trademarks and the term may be renewed for another ten-year period upon request by the trademark owner. A trademark
registrant may license its registered trademarks to another party by entering into trademark license agreements, which must be filed with
the Trademark Office for the record. As with patents, the Trademark Law has adopted a first-to-file principle with respect to
trademark registration. If a trademark applied for is identical or similar to another trademark which has already been registered or subject
to a preliminary examination and approval for use on the same or similar kinds of products or services, such a trademark application may
be rejected. Any person applying for the registration of a trademark may not infringe on existing trademark rights first obtained by others,
nor may any person register in advance a trademark that has already been used by another party and has already gained a “sufficient
degree of reputation” through such other party’s use.

Regulations on Domain Names

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,
or the MIIT, promulgated the Measures on Administration