The WTO recently released its decision in DS 611, the IP enforcement case involving China’s SEP practices and transparency of China’s judicial decision making. The case makes some progress on China’s important transparency obligations.
On March 13, 2025, China’s State Council issued new regulations regarding resolving foreign-related IP disputes. These comments discuss how the regulations might be used to encourage Chinese government responses to foreign government and judicial agencies’ actions against Chinese companies defending or asserting their rights overseas.
Mark Cohen’s spring lecture agenda focuses on new developments in US-China IP relations, developments under Donald Trump, and practical aspects of licensing to or from China.
Asia Society is hosting a virtual workshop on US-China tech competition on February 4, 2025. In addition on February 6, 2025, Pomona College is hosting a lecture on the challenge of translating FRAND into Chinese.
Today, January 20, 2025, the European Union requested consultations at the World Trade Organization regarding China’s practice of setting binding worldwide royalty rates for EU standard essential patents without the patent owner’s […]
The Asia Society of Northern California will be sponsoring a half-day workshop (in person and virtual) in San Francisco from 9:30 AM. to 1 PM on methodologies for analyzing US-China technology competition, […]
On December 18, 2024, I was honored to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet. These hearings were on “IP and Strategic Competition with China.” […]
On January 7, 2025, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST, the Quincy Institute and the Asia Society of Northern California will be hosting a discussion on “Re-Kindling the U.S.-China S&T Relationship: […]
The Quincy Foundation just released my article, “Bridging the Divide: It Is Time for a New Science Agreement With China,” co-authored with Prof. Denis Simon. Denis and I argue that a renewed […]
Keio University, Japan hosts a program on changes in Technology and IP law and practice in light of the 2024 US presidential election.
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.
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