Joseph Sternberg of the Wall Street Journal reported a few days ago that a European company, Ineos, has decided to bring a law suit against a Chinese State Owned Enterprise, Sinopec, for […]
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.
The Problem of “Mountain Stronghold” Teas
How many corrupted officials have got their Ph.D. from corrupted Universities in China?”, asks Sun Yifei, a professor of geography at Calstate Northridge, on the Google S&T and Innovation in China page. The […]
SIPO Amends Exam Guidelines to Provide Design Patent Protection For GUI’s
As I previously blogged, SIPO was considering amending its patent examination guidelines to permit design patent protection for graphical user interfaces (GUI’s). The new examination guidelines were promulgated by SIPO on March […]
USPTO China Team Attorney-Advisor Position Opens
USPTO has announced a position for US citizens on the China team. Here is the link: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/364794400 . The position requires US citizenship, a law degree, knowledge and experience in intellectual property and the […]
Oklahoma Attorney General Sues Chinese Company For Use of PIrated Software
On Thursday March 13, Oklahoma joined the expanding list of US states that are utilizing their state competition laws to address products sold in their markets that enjoy an unfair competitive advantage […]
SAIC Announces Beginning of Revision Process to Anti-Unfair Competition Law
SAIC has announced on its website that it has “formally” begun the topic of revision the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (which includes trade secrets): http://www.saic.gov.cn/fldyfbzdjz/gzdt/201403/t20140303_142680.html. (《反不正当竞争法》修法课题正式启动). According to this press report, the SAIC Competition Enforcement […]
SPC President’s Report on Adjudication Highlights Some Key IPR Judicial Developments
SPC President Zhou Qiang spelled out some key IPR judicial developments in report to the National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Consultative Congress on March 10. A full text of the report […]
USPTO Working Paper on Growth in China’s Patent Filings
The Office of the Chief Economist at USPTO has published a working paper on “Perspectives on the growth in Chinese patent applications to the USPTO” (Working Paper No. 2014-1, by Alan Marco, […]
Thomas Jennings and Jin Fuey Moy: Patents for Struggling Minorities – Black History Month
It is black history month in the United States. So here’s a question: what do Thomas Jennings and Jin Fuey Moy have in common? They certainly never met each other. Thomas Jennings […]
Comings and Goings: US Chamber and CISAC
The US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC has recently posted a job as Senior Director, China. The position requires; 10+ years’ China-related experience; a broad network of contacts in the United […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 