When faced with trade secret misappropriation, the United States International Trade Commission can provide a forum for U.S. companies faced with unfair competition resulting from the misappropriation, even if the “theft” occurs […]
Mark A. Cohen （柯恒）
Mark Allen Cohen (柯恒) is currently the Senior Technology Fellow at the Asia Society of Northern California and at the Asia Society Policy Institute He also serves an Edison Fellow at the University of Akron School of Law and as a non-resident fellow at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego, and at the National Bureau of Asian Research. He was the first Intellectual Property Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of International Relations at USPTO. Among his many awards, he is a recipient of the Meritorious Honor award from President Barack Obama on recommendation of President Obama for his work on technology transfer issues involving China This is the highest award in the U.S. civil service. In total, he has nearly 50 years of private, public sector, in house and academic experience on IPR issues in China. This blog represents the personal opinions of Mark Cohen and any guest authors only and should not be construed as the position of any third party or client. Among his recent awards, he has been given (again) a "Top 300 Global IP Strategist" award (2026) by Intellectual Asset Management magazine: https://www.iam-media.com/rankings/strategy-300.
Upcoming Licensing Program in Taiwan
The American Institute of Taiwan (AIT) and the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs, amongst others, are sponsoring a licensing program at AIT on March 30, 2017. The program will cover licensing issues […]
More Policy Discussions on Pharma IP Reform
There appear to be some serious discussion of late regarding China using its IP laws to encourage more innovative drugs. One significant advance was the recent amendments to China’s Patent Examination Guidelines […]
RIP，Dr. Richard Solomon
Dr. Richard Solomon, who worked with Dr. Henry Kissinger on normalization of relations between the United States and China passed away on March 13, 2017. The Washington Post described Solomon in its […]
Two Upcoming Events: Innovation and Technology Licensing
ITIF, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, is holding a seminar in How the Trump Administration Can Stop China’s Innovation Mercantilism on March 16, 2017. Here’s the link to the program. Speakers […]
Spring Time for IPR Case Law in China?
Recently, there have been two important developments involving IP-related guiding cases and precedent that shed light on these different approaches of the Supreme People’s Court, which is in charge of guiding cases, […]
Should the NPC also consider Criminal Copyright Reform when it considers Copyright Reform?
At this month’s National People’s Congress, an NPC spokesman noted that this year the NPC intends to address reform of the copyright law, which has been long delayed. However, reform of the […]
Stealing IP from the Steel Sector?
Michael Komesaroff, a Sinologist and mining engineer based in Australia, has published an interesting article on the website of the Center for Strategic and International Studies on “Make the Foreign Serve China: […]
China IP and the New Trade Agenda
Last week, the Trump administration announced its Trade Policy Agenda, to criticism and support. As the above word cloud suggests, the focus is on US interests, US sovereignty and the US relationship […]
IP Moot Court Competition in Beijing
The School of Law at Beijing Foreign Studies University will host an Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition in May 2017. The competition, which is held in English, has a 10-year legacy and […]
