Many Westerners have little sense of how deeply industrial policy is built into China’s intellectual property system. In the past, this blog has reported on some of the industry-focused plans, such as […]
Ox Herding, Industrial Policy and China IP
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.
GAI and ABA Publish Their AUCL Comments
Attached are the comments of the American Bar Association Sections on International Law and Antitrust Law on the proposed draft revisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL) as well as comments of the Global […]
Revised Patent Infringement Judicial Interpretation Released
The Supreme People’s Court published its revised judicial interpretation on patent infringement litigation. I previously blogged about the early draft here. Here is a Chinese language article on the press conference announcing […]
The “Supremes” Talk About Rule of Law and IP
The meetings of China’s legislative and advisory branches have just concluded and, as in prior years, the annual work reports of the “Two Supremes” 两高 (Supreme People‘s Court [SPC] and Supreme People’s […]
Imminent Program in Shanghai with the IP Judiciary
IP Key, the European program for IP cooperation with China is sponsoring an EU-China Judge’s forum in Shanghai on March 17-18. The program is jointly organized by IP Judicial Protection Research Center […]
Beginning the Journey for Trade Secret Reform: the Recent AUCL Draft
A much awaited, proposed public draft revision to the Antiunfair Competition Law was released by the State Council Legislative Affairs Office on February 25, 2016. Comments are due by March 25, 2016. […]
Three Upcoming Academic Programs: Reserve the Dates
Here are three upcoming China IP-related programs hosted by academic institutions. On the West Coast, the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley will […]
IPR Abuse and Refusals to License
The US Chamber and American Chamber of Commerce (the “Chambers”) have recently made available its recent comments on the NDRC and SAIC drafts of the IP abuse guidelines to be promulgated by […]
MofCOM Files Amicus Petition for Rehearing
The Trade Remedy Investigation Bureau (TRB) of China’s Ministry of Commerce has filed an amicus petition for a rehearing en banc in Sino Legend v ITC. The petition notes that the Chinese […]
Patent Litigation, Local Protectionism and Empiricism: Data Sources and Data Critiques
Professors Brian Love, Christine Helmers and Markus Eberhardt have recently co-authored an article Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?. The article has been excerpted in the IAM, discussed […]
