The State Council recently promulgated its notice of its “Trial Opinion” on Making Publicly Available According to Law Information on Administrative Penalties Concerning the Production and Sale of Fake, Counterfeit and Sub-standard […]
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.
Pharmaceutical Patent Linkage: Are Rumors of Its Death Premature?
At the end of last year, I noted that CFDA’s proposed new Drug Registration Rule could spell the end of China’s limited patent linkage regime. A new public comment draft of the […]
New Trademark Related Judicial Guidance and E-Commerce Enforcement Rule
Joe Simone at Simone Intellectual Property Services, has shared a translation of the recent Beijing Higher People’s Court Guidance on Hearing Trademark Administrative Cases (Jan. 2014). In view of the high number […]
New TRAB Rules in Translation
USPTO has kindly made available an unofficial translation of the proposed new rules of the TRAB that were recently released for public comment. Here they are. My original blog on the Rules […]
A Basic IPR Law for China?
Is China now considering the adoption of an integrated Basic IPR Law? And what would that mean to existing legislative efforts? The idea of a basic law on IP has been under […]
Two Early US Presidents and Chinese IP
Today is President’s Day in the United States, named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and I pay a brief tribute to the role of these two presidents in bilateral IP issues. […]
China’s Patent Maintenance Crisis
He conquers, who endures. – Persius Does the growth of China’s patent office mean that China is “out-innovating” the West, as some commentators would suggest? Patent applications, patent grants, and analyses of […]
Survey on Choice of Governing Law in China-Related Contracts
This is from Susan Finder via the Chinalaw listserve: Practical Law China has prepared a brief survey on choice of governing law in China-related contracts. Practical Law China would be very grateful if you […]
The Back Story on the Third Plenum IPR Language
Former SIPO Commissioner Tian Lipu recently revealed the “legislative history” of the language in the Third Plenum regarding IP, as reflected by former Chief Judge Jiang Zhipei in his chinaiprlaw.cn blog (http://www.chinaiprlaw.cn/file/2014020731400.html). […]
Legal “Choreography” and the Revised Draft TRAB Rules
Just as the due date for comments on the revised Trademark Law Implementing Regulations expired on February 10, 2014, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office (SCLAO) simultaneously released proposed new Rules of […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 