Huawei has recently sued Samsung for patent infringement in Shenzhen, China and in California. Samsung also announced it would countersue Huawei. A copy of the California complaint is attached here. Huawei sued T-Mobile in […]
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.
IP Vacancy at USTR
USTR has recently posted a job announcement in its IP and Innovation office. Knowledge of Chinese would be a helpful plus to a potential candidate. The closing date is June 3, 2016. Position: Policy […]
Program on Trademark Strategy For Chinese Companies Investing Overseas
· Location: Chengdu, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Wuhan · Dates: 01 Jun 2016 to 08 Jun 2016 IP Key (the European IP technical assistance/exchange program) is organising 5 half-day Trade Mark strategy seminars in […]
Anticounterfeiting Roundup
This is the fourth in a series on IP enforcement developments. I previously blogged on judicial developments, online copyright, Customs enforcement, and now I am writing on anticounterfeiting, particularly trademark counterfeiting. There […]
US and China Customs Data Compared
The following are some reflections on what Customs-related enforcement activity in the US and China last year. The data generally shows the continuing problem of a high level of exports of counterfeit goods […]
CATR’s Report on Copyright Enforcement in the On Line Enviroment
The China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR), at the request of the National Copyright Administration, released a report on April 26, 2016 on Copyright Protection in the Online Environment. The report noted that there were […]
Upcoming IPR and R&D Program in Nanjing
SIPO and USPTO will be co-sponsoring a program on IPR issues of concern to conducting R&D in China. The seminar will bring together government officials, senior IP and accounting experts, and corporate […]
Three Upcoming Programs
If you are near Portland, Oregon, Prof. Eric Priest of the University of Oregon, Chief Judge Rader (ret) and I will be talking at the University of Oregon about our joint efforts […]
Summarizing the SPC’s 2015 White Paper
China releases much of its IP data in April, on the margins of World IP Day (April 26). This year there have been important conferences summarizing these reports in advance of […]
Three Upcoming Programs
Here are three upcoming programs: Stanford is hosting a program on guiding cases at Stanford on Wednesday April 6, 2015. The China General Chamber of Commerce is hosting a program “China-U.S. Intellectual Property […]
