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 […]
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.
July 24th USPTO – Denver Lecture on Chinese IP
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-SIPO To Conduct Second IP Licensing Program
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 […]
Sword Net Campaign to Focus on Music Piracy
I had previously blogged on the 2014 top 10 cases of the copyright-oriented “Sword Network” or “Sword” Campaign. On July 8, the National Copyright Administration announced that a top priority for the […]
China’s Rising Presence in the IPO Top 300
Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) recently released its top 300 organizations granted US patents in 2014. Many Chinese companies made the top 300. TSMC was the top amongst Mainland or Taiwan companies, ranking number […]
International Innovation and IP Analyst Position Opening at ITIF
ITIF, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)—a Washington, DC-based technology and economic policy think tank is seeking a trade and intellectual property policy analyst. The analyst will work on a wide […]
Protecting Chinese Broadcasts …. In the United States
As I noted recently, a Beijing district court recently decided that live broadcasts of sports events can be protected under China’s copyright law (June 30, 2015). Only a few weeks earlier, a […]
New National Standards Proposed for IP Management by Higher Ed and Research Institutions
On June 30, the State Intellectual Property Office posted a draft for comment of proposed national recommended standards for Intellectual Property Management for Research and Development Organizations and Intellectual Property Management for […]
Update on Revisions to the Antiunfair Competition Law
According to the Beijing Intellectual Property Institute (“BIPI”) (June 2015 newsletter) and other press sources the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) had completed its draft revisions of the Antiunfair Competition […]
Beijing Court Grants Copyright Protection to Live Sports Broadcast
In a very positive development for Chinese football sports leagues, CCTV, Tencent, NBA, as well as Olympic and other international sports competitions in China, the Chaoyang basic level court in Beijing […]
