“Establishment Date” means the date on which the first Business License is issued to the JV Company;
“Exchange Rate” means the mean of the buying and selling rates for RMB against USD published by the People’s Bank of China as applicable on each payment date;
“Execution Date” means the date of this JV Contract;
“Financial Year” means the period commencing on January 1 and ending on December 31 of each year;
“Force Majeure Event” means any objective circumstances which are unforeseen, unavoidable, insurmountable or otherwise beyond the control of the Party, including lightning, typhoon, storm, flood, fire, earthquake or other acts of nature, epidemic, war, strike, civil disobedience and the changes of laws and policies;
“Government Official” means (i) any official, employee or person acting on behalf of any government, any governmental agency, department or instrumentality, including state-owned or state-controlled commercial enterprises, or any public international organization (e.g., the United Nations or World Bank); or (ii) any political party or official thereof or any candidate for political office;
“Intellectual Property Rights” means on a worldwide basis all (i) trademarks, service marks, brand names, certification marks, collective marks, Internet domain names, logos, symbols, trade dress, assumed names, fictitious names, trade names, and other indicia of origin, all applications and registrations for the foregoing, and all goodwill associated therewith and symbolized thereby, including all renewals of same; (ii) proprietarily owned inventions and discoveries, whether patentable or not, and all patents, registrations, invention disclosures and applications therefor, including divisions, continuations, continuations-in-part and renewal applications, and including renewals, extensions and reissues; (iii) Confidential Information, trade secrets and know-how, including processes, schematics, business methods, formulae, drawings, prototypes, models, designs, customer lists and supplier lists; (iv) published and unpublished works of authorship, whether copyrightable or not (including databases and other compilations of information), copyrights therein and thereto, and registrations and applications therefore, and all renewals, extensions, restorations and reversions thereof; and (v) any other intellectual property or proprietary rights;
“MOFCOM” means the Ministry of Commerce and its local counterparts and their successors;
“NDRC” means the National Development and Reform Commission and its local counterparts and their successors;
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, enterprise, association, joint-stock company, limited liability company, trust or unincorporated organization;
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