Another trade fair matter involving Chinese exhibitors occurred this past week (ending Nov. 5, 2016) involving the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Marketing Association) trade fair in Las Vegas. As with the Future Motion […]
Mark Cohen （柯恒）
Mark Allen Cohen (柯恒) is currently the Senior Technology Fellow at the Asia Society of Northern California and an Edison Fellow at the University of Akron School of Law. He also serves as a Non-Resident Scholar at the University of California Haas School of Business and University of California, San Diego, and the National Bureau of Asian Research. He previously served as the first Intellectual Property Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of International Relations at USPTO. In total, he has over 30 years private, public sector, in house and academic experience on IPR issues in China. This blog represents the opinions of Mark Cohen and any guest authors only and should not be construed as the position of any third party.
US-China Entertainment Law Conference Highlights Business and Legal Developments
(From a presentation by Lisa Wang, General Counsel, Huayi Brothers Media Corporation) The following is a readout of the US-China Entertainment Law Conference held at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles on […]
Future Motion vs Changzhou First Int’l Trade Co: Defendant Fails In its Effort to Recover Security and Attorneys Fees at CES
Back in January 2016, a Chinese exhibitor at the Consumer Electronics Show (Changzhou Int’l Trade Co.) was reportedly raided for patent infringement by US marshals, after a US court in Nevada issued a […]
SIPO Publishes Proposed Revisions to Patent Examination Guidelines
On October 27, 2016, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) published the Draft (For Public Comment) of Revisions to the Patent Examination Guidelines. The Chinese text is available here. Comments on the draft should […]
ABA Teleconference on Antitrust Investigations (10/17/16)
The American Bar Association has asked me to post a notice on this forthcoming conference on Chinese Antimonopoly Law investigations, which is also expected to cover the IP issues in AML investigations, […]
Upcoming Talk at NYU
I will be speaking on Monday October 10 at NYU’s Asian Law Institute. If interested, please RSVP to the indicated address right away: Joann.kim@nyu.edu. Check out usali.org for other useful China law […]
Kong Xiangjun Leaves Supreme People’s Court and Enters Academia
Chinese and Western media have reported that former Supreme People’s Court IPR Tribunal Chief Judge Kong Xiangjun and former Deputy Chief Judge of the SPC’s first Circuit Court has been dismissed […]
Counterfeits in Microchannel Marketing … and Case Law
Amidst the escalating focus on online counterfeiting, piracy and patent infringement, online social media, such as WeChat are also becoming a source of infringing products, as documented in a Wall Street Journal […]
Some Good and Bad News in Recent Reports on China’s IP Environment
“The good news is China interested in IP, and the bad news is that China is interested in IP.” This proposition is proved by some of the recent reports on China’s IP […]
Qualcomm’s Litigation Strategies and Recent IP Developments in China
反者道之動。弱者道之用。 (道德經, Chap. 40) (Return is the movement of the Dao. Yielding is the way of the Dao. Daodejing, Chap. 40.) To the uninitiated, Qualcomm’s licensing practices in China must appear confusing. […]
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