It is IP week and for IP data geeks like me, China is publishing huge amounts of data in a short period of time. The biggest challenge isn’t collecting the data, but […]
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.
IP Scholarships at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China – 宁波诺丁汉大学
The University of Nottingham – Ningbo is offering scholarships for Ph.D. candidates in Chinese IP law. Information about the program is available here. The website discusses the current opportunities as follows: “The […]
UCSD and USPTO Announce Program on Data Involving Innovation and IP in China
The University of California San Diego and the US Patent and Trademark Office have announced a forthcoming program in May on “New Perspectives on Innovation and Intellectual Property in China: What does […]
SAIC Releases IP Abuse Rule
The State Administration of Industry and Commerce has issued final Rules on Stopping the Abuse of Intellectual Property to Eliminate or Restrict Competitive Conduct on April 7 (Order No. 74) (关于禁止滥用知识产权排除、限制竞争行为的规)with an […]
Patent Law Amendments Translation
Attached is a translation of proposed patent law amendments and explanatory notes that involve antitrust (particularly standards essential patents), courtesy of Steve Harris and Winston & Strawn. My blog on the patent law amendments […]
Draft Service Invention Regulations Out For Public Comment
On April 2, 2015, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office (“SCLAO”) published a draft of the Service Invention Regulations along with an accompanying explanation. The draft was prepared with the assistance of SIPO and the […]
Patent Law Revision Released for Public Comment
Today, April 1, SIPO started to solicit public comments on its new draft of Patent Law Amendments The deadline for submitting comments is April 28. The link underlined above includes links […]
Licensing: A Forthcoming Program and Some Historical Perspective
With recent antitrust investigations in China, as well as China’s design to have more market-oriented targets for IP, export growth in IP rights from China is slated to grow from 1.36 billion USD […]
Civil, Criminal and Administrative IP Litigation Continued in Climb in 2014
China’s Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate released a summary of their IP-related activities as part of their annual work report to the National People’s Congress. As reported by the Beijing […]
WIPO, SIPO and USPTO: US-China Patent Filing Trends
Chinese Activity at WIPO A WIPO report released on March 19 noted that Huawei, with 3,442 published PCT applications, overtook Panasonic as the largest applicant in 2014. Qualcomm was the second largest […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 