Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-07-01
Form Type: F-4
Source: 0001104659-25-064447
Chunk: 84

Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-01
Form: F-4
Chunk 84
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unenforceable due to a variety of grounds, including lack of novelty, creativity, and deficiencies in patent applications. In China, a
patent must have novelty, creativity and practical applicability. Under the Patent Law, novelty means that before a patent application
is filed, no identical invention or utility model has been publicly disclosed in any publication in China or overseas or has been publicly
used or made known to the public by any other means, whether in or outside of China, nor has any other person filed with the patent authority
an application that describes an identical invention or utility model and is recorded in patent application documents or patent documents
published after the filing date. Creativity means that, compared with existing technology, an invention has prominent substantial features
and represents notable progress, and a utility model has substantial features and represents any progress. Practical applicability means
an invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and may produce positive results. Patents in China are filed with the State
Intellectual Property Office, or SIPO. Normally, the SIPO publishes an application for an invention patent within 18 months after the
filing date, which may be shortened at the request of the applicant. The applicant must apply to the SIPO for a substantive examination
within 3 years from the date of application.

On November 15, 2021, the SIPO issued an announcement
on the Measures for the Registration of Patent Pledges. The announcement stipulates that the SIPO is responsible for the registration
of patent pledges. Where the patent right is pledged, the pledgor and the pledgee shall enter into a written contract. The pledgor and
the pledgee shall jointly register with the SIPO for the registration of the pledge of the patent right. The pledge of the patent right
shall be established at the time of registration with the SIPO.

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Regulations on Copyrights

The PRC Copyright Law, which became effective on
June 1, 1991, and amended in 2001, 2010 and 2020, provides that Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations own copyrights
in their copyrightable works, whether published or not, which include, works of literature, art, natural science, social science, engineering
technology, and computer software. Copyright owners enjoy certain legal rights, including the right of publication, right of authorship,
and right of reproduction. The Copyright Law as revised in 2010 extends