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 […]
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.
Battling for information on Counterfeiters: Can Courts and Litigants Do Better?
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 […]
Legislative Plans and Updates For the Balance of 2015
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: […]
Comments of George Mason University on Antitrust Questionnaire
Attached are the comments in Chinese and English of George Mason University’s Global Antitrust Institute on the Questionnaire on Intellectual Property Misuse Antitrust Guidelines distributed by NDRC. The Director of the GAI is Joshua […]
Berkeley China Program Update – Registration and Agenda Available On Line
The US – China IP Conference at Berkeley (October 8-9, 2015) now has its on-line presence fully up and running. Here is the link to conference registration. Here is the conference agenda. […]
The Scotch Whisky Victory for Trademarks
On September 17, the Scotch Whisky Association announced a significant anti-counterfeiting victory in the Anqing Intermediate Court in Anhui Province. The case is Scotch Whisky Association vs. Anhui Guangyu Packaging Company Ltd., […]
Cardozo Law China Program September 24 In NYC
Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, in association with the Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment (FAME) Center sponsored a program on The US & China: Perspectives on Brand Protection and Intellectual […]
A New Winner: China’s First Patentee in the US and One of China’s First Patentees in China
China’s First Patent Office? In an earlier blog, I noted that Dr. Jin Fuey Moy (梅振魁; Mei Zhenkui, 1862-1924) was the owner of a 1908 patent on an enhanced nutcracker for chestnuts […]
Revised Copyright Administrative Enforcement Punishment Rules Available for Public Comment
NCAC has published a public comment draft of revised Copyight Administrative Punishment Implementing Measures “著作权行政处罚实施办法（修订征求意见稿）”, with comments due Sept 30, 2015. The new draft addresses certain important emerging issues for administrative enforcement, including: punishment […]
Asking the “Better Questions”: Lessons for the AML … from a Nobel Physics Laureate
Several people have reached out to me in the past few weeks about questionnaires that have been sent out by China’s National Development and Reform Commission, which brought the Qualcomm IP abuse […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 