Company: CAAS
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001104659-25-073486
Chunk: 85

Company: China Automotive Systems, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: 424B3
Chunk 85
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 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 of Internet Domain Names on August 24, 2017, which became effective on November 1,
2017, and replaced the Administrative Measures on China Internet Domain Names promulgated by the MIIT on November 5, 2004. Pursuant
to these measures, the MIIT oversees the administration of PRC internet domain names. The domain name registration follows a first-to-file
principle. Applicants for registration of domain names must provide true, accurate, and complete information about their identities to
domain name registration service institutions. The applicants will become the holder of such domain names upon the completion of