Last Thursday, May 8 was “Community Day” at USPTO, which recognizes the USPTO’s unique and diverse work force. The above video is of a dance performed at Community Day. Walking about the […]
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 Trump 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.
Last Thursday, May 8 was “Community Day” at USPTO, which recognizes the USPTO’s unique and diverse work force. The above video is of a dance performed at Community Day. Walking about the […]
The American Chamber of Commerce in China recently released its 2014 American Business in China White Paper (http://www.amchamchina.org/whitepaper2014) (16th edition) and its China Business Climate Survey Report (http://www.amchamchina.org/businessclimate2014). These papers present useful snapshots […]
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a US Fortune 500 company, is seeking its first local IP counsel to support its China patemt strategy as well as IP aspects of its local manufacturing and […]
USPTO recently released its 2014-2018 Strategic Plan (38 pp). Three specific goals are highlighted under USPTO’s efforts to “Work jointly with the administration to improve IP protection and enforcement in China.” These […]
Simone IP Services (SIPS) has graciously made available their Memo on the PRC Trademark Law Implementing Regulations . The Implementing Regulations were adopted by the State Council on April 29, 2014 (国令第651号). […]
The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently released its ten top cases for IP week at the end of April. Perhaps the most striking was the inclusion of the high-profile trade secret case […]
Just recently the lunar calendar passed into the period of “Grain Rain”((谷雨, guyu) in China. This is a time of increasing temperature and high humidity, which is ideal for growing grains. The temperature […]
I am going to take a moment from my usual blogging about IP developments and China IP trivia to blog about another favorite topic. Me. The US Chamber of Commerce honored me a […]
During this past week, when world IP day is celebrated (April 26), the Supreme People’s Court once again released its white paper on Intellectual Property Protection by the Courts, available on line […]
The website of the State Council Legislative Affairs Office made the draft of the proposed changes to the SAIC rules on well known trademarks《驰名商标认定和保护规定》(修订征求意见稿) available for public comment on April 14 through […]