Company: TCOM
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001193125-25-078429
Chunk: 113

Company: Trip.com Group Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 113
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 another party should enter into a patent license contract with the patent owner concerned and pay patent royalties to the patent owner. Pursuant to the Measures for the Filing of Patent Licensing Contracts, the State Intellectual Property Office is responsible for filing of patent licensing contracts nationwide and the parties concerned must complete filing formalities within three months from the effective date of a patent licensing contract. 
Copyright 
 Under the currently effective PRC Copyright Law, Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations are entitled to, whether published or not, enjoy copyright in their works, which include, among others, works of literature, art, natural science, social science, engineering technology, and computer software. The purpose of the PRC Copyright Law aims to encourage the creation and dissemination of works which is beneficial for the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and material civilization and promote the development and prosperity of socialist cultural and scientific undertakings. 
 
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 According to the Computer Software Copyright Registration Measures, the National Copyright Administration is the competent authority for the nationwide administration of software copyright registration and the Copyright Protection Center of China is designated as the software registration authority. The Copyright Protection Center of China will grant registration certificates to the Computer Software Copyrights applicants if the applications conform to the provisions of both the Computer Software Copyright Registration Measures and the Computer Software Protection Regulations. 
 Domain Names 
 The Administrative Measures on Internet Domain Names regulate that “.CN” and “zhongguo (in Chinese character)” are China’s national top level domains. Any party that engages in internet information services must use its domain name in compliance with laws and regulations and in line with the provisions of the telecommunications authority, and cannot use its domain name to commit any illegal act. 
 Regulations Relating to Anti-Monopoly and Anti-Unfair Competition 
 According to the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law, which was last amended on April 23, 2019, unfair competition refers to that the operator disrupts the market competition order and damages the legitimate rights and interests of other operators or consumers in violation of the provisions of the PRC Anti-Unfair Competition Law in the production and operating activities. 
 The PRC Anti-Monopoly Law, which was last amended on June 24, 2022, introduced a “safe harbor” for vertical monopoly agreements entered into by operators whose market share falls below a specific threshold to be set by the SAMR, granted the SAMR the power to suspend the review period in merger investigations under specified circumstances, allowed public prosecutors to bring a civil public interest lawsuit based on monopolistic behaviors, and