Hong Kong Is Not The Same As China

How do the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong relate to each other regarding IPRs

Hong Kong has been part of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1997. But the former British crown colony has a very different and nearly autonomous jurisdiction from its motherland. How do the PRC and Hong Kong relate to each other in regard to the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR)?

United but different

On 19 December 1984 the governments of the PRC and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong¹. The PRC and the United Kingdom declared together that under the principle of "One Country, Two Systems", Hong Kong would keep its capitalist system and retain its own laws and a high degree of autonomy for 50 years. These policies are codified in the Basic Law² that came into effect on 1 July 1997. As of that moment Hong Kong would be called a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. The Basic Law