An Academic Overview of Relations Between IP Law and Civil Code

With the development of the economic life and deepening of the theoretic research, the civil law community in China began, from the late 1990s and early this century, heated discussions on how to develop a good civil code, and the legislative authority also appointed some experts and scholars to start the work on drafting the civil code. Since the work along the line also involves the structure and system of the civil code, whether to incorporate the intellectual property law into the civil code has become one of the points of attention from the scholars. The relevant discussions have been kept on to date.