The South China Morning Post reported recently on jailhouse inventors, a topic that you may have first read about here. According to the SCMP and Beijing Youth Daily, various provinces have different […]
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.
Synergies and Contrasts Between The National IP Strategy Action Plan and Fourth Plenum (with contrasting wordclouds)
“”” Here is an unofficial translation of the English language translation of the Action plan of the National IP Strategy (2014 -2020) (NIPS), about which I previously blogged. A wordcloud from this English translation is above […]
A Good Year for the Blog
This blog had a very good year last year. We exceeded 100,000 direct page views total for the blog since launch in 2011, with about half of those page views in 2014. We grew our […]
USPTO’s 2014 Performance and Accountability Report and China
USPTO recently released its Fiscal Year 2014 Performance & Accountability Report. Here’s a quick summary of where China is specifically mentioned: Patent Applications and Grants: From 2010 to 2013, mainland China showed […]
Action Plan for Further Implementation of the National IP Strategy (2014-2020) Approved
According to a Chinese Government website, on December 29, the State Council reviewed and approved the Action Plan for Further Implementation of the National IP Strategy (2014-2020) (Action Plan). The Outline of the National […]
Changing Times in China’s Hundred Acre Wood
The Walt Disney Company continues to zealously protect its various brands, including Winnie the Pooh. China Daily reported last month that Disney won a law suit against an apparent trademark squatter. The […]
IP Position Opens at USTR
USTR is looking for a “trade analyst” who, ideally, can speak Chinese and will be engaged in “IPR and innovation trade problems.” The deadline for applying is January 2, 2015. Here is a […]
Standards and IP – December Updates
Nearly every week there is a new development somewhere in the world on IP and standards. China has been no exception. I already blogged about several of them of them, including EIPC […]
JCCT 2014 Winds Up – Joint Fact Sheets Now Released
The 2014 JCCT was hosted by the US government in Chicago, Illinois this year. Here is a link to the updated English fact sheet (released Dec. 29) (Chinese:第25届中美商贸联委会联合成果清单) that is now a joint fact sheet. Here is […]
A Quick Report on the EIPC MIIT Conference Including SAIC’s IP Abuse Rules, Patent Law Amendments, EIPC MIIT Standardization Policies, Standards and IP Abuse…
EIPC MIIT’s Conference on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law convened on December 10 and 11 in Beijing. The conference brought together about 150 international and Chinese experts, including lawyers, judges, academics, […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 