Under the framework of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Chinese companies face serious challenges in protecting their intellectual property rights (IPRs) overseas. Through legal text analysis, empirical cases and multi-source data integration, this study systematically analyses the fitness gap between CPTPP's high-standard rules and China's practice and reveals three core contradictions: mismatch of legal rules, structural imbalance of enterprise capacity, and fragmentation of international cooperation. Based on this, this paper proposes that at the legislative level, we need to accelerate the convergence of domestic laws and international rules and strengthen the professional enforcement mechanism; enterprises need to build a risk early warning system with the help of digital tools and form a collective action synergy through organisations such as industry associations; and at the international level, we should promote a multi-latitude mechanism of international co-operation and co-ordination. The results of the study emphasise the urgent need for China to build a ‘proactive defence’ IP strategy by improving the adaptation of Chinese law and global governance model based on balancing the CPTPP rules, so as to provide a practical reference for Chinese enterprises to cope with the high standard of international IP rules overseas.

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