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.
NDRC has released a draft for public comment of its Antitrust Guidelines for Abuse of IP知识产权滥用的反垄断指南（征求意见稿）(English language wordcloud above). As with the NDRC questionnaire this appears to have been selectively released although […]
I will be speaking on November 6, 2015 at the US Chamber’s 3rd Annual Global IP Summit “Illuminating The Possibilities” this Friday, November 6. The topic is the US-China IP Dialogue. My discussants are David Kappos […]
Here are two new local policies on online adjudication and enforcement From fellow Chinese IP blogger Song Haining, comes word of a draft Beijing Court Draft Guidance (for comment) on Adjudication of Internet IP Cases (北京市高级人民法院有关网络知识产权案件的审理指南 […]
Following my recent blog posts on music copyright efforts in China, I have linked here an article published in July 2015 by Prof. Jiarui Liu from Stanford University, on “Copyright for Blockheads: […]
The Office of the Chief Counsel for International Commerce at the Department of Commerce has an opening or for an attorney with 1-3 years of legal experience (GS-12 or 13). The application […]
Here’s a mix of copyright updates: On October 13, Tencent and Netease signed a deal for Netease to takes licenses on 1.5 million songs. Tencent, as I previously reported, has actively been […]
I was honored to be invited to moderate the opening session for the 21st annual Timothy A Gelatt Dialogue at NYU Law on “Due Process for Foreign Business in China?” on November 12, […]
The American Bar Association has once again made publicly available its response to the NDRC questionnaire on drafting IP abuse guidelines, attached here. This is a useful and large bilingual download which […]
On October 7 of last week, several news services picked up on the September 29, 2015 order of Judge Richard J. Sullivan in the Southern District of New York in the long […]
The following is a summary of recent and some near-term legislative developments: According to its legislative plan (September 2, 2015), the State Council will accomplish the following during the balance of 2015: […]
Mark Allen Cohen (柯恒} is a Distinguished Senior Fellow, Director and Lecturer of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. In total, he has nearly 40 years of private sector, public sector, etc., in-house and academic experience on IPR issues in China, including numerous publications and awards. This is his private blog.
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 