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.
This guest posting from KPMG looks at the evolving Chinese tax environment for multinational enterprise (MNE) management of IP tax issues. KPMG China has prepared a detailed overview of these issues, alongside […]
The 2014-15 US – China IP Cooperation Dialogue report has been just released by the US Chamber of Commerce. The Chinese title: 中美知识产权学者对话纪要. Here is a link to last year’s report for comparison. […]
Two of my favorite China IP programs will be taking place this October. From October 8-9, UC Berkeley will be hosting the 4th Annual US-China IP Conference: Best Practices for Innovation and […]
The National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), in its 2014 Annual Report Online Copyright Protection in China (2014年中国网络版权保护年度报告), analyzed published opinions on online civil copyright cases involving the “right of transmission to […]
As many of my readers may know, I was not a fan of the Chinese courts’ decisions in Huawei vs. Interdigital in Shenzhen and Guangdong, which raised a number of process and […]
The US Chamber of Commerce has posted a position for Director, China. As much as 50% of the work in this position involves intellectual property and antitrust. Please send your application to our […]
Notarization in IP Matters: Its Extensive Use and The Challenges It Poses for Foreigners Two important but related aspects of IP litigation in China are (a) its reliance on formalities, including notarized […]
In a development that speaks to both recent developments that seek to drive more value for the content industries in China, as well the vitality of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone as […]
I wil be giving a talk at USPTO-Denver on Chinese IP Developments on July 24th. The announcement is available here. The title is “Anticipating Future Challenges on Chinese IP – Why Being Up-to-date […]
USPTO and SIPO are cohosting another program on IP licensing on July 29 at SIPO’s training center in Beijing. I reported on the last program earlier this year here. Although the final […]
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 