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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“When falsehood stands for truth, truth likewise becomes false.” — Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber A French author has challenged the authenticity of the Terra Cotta figures in Xi’an, suggesting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Mark Allen Cohen (柯恒} is a Distinguished Senior Fellow, Director and Lecturer of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. In total, he has nearly 40 years of private sector, public sector, etc., in-house and academic experience on IPR issues in China, including numerous publications and awards. This is his private blog.
