The State Administration of Industry and Commerce has issued final Rules on Stopping the Abuse of Intellectual Property to Eliminate or Restrict Competitive Conduct on April 7 (Order No. 74) (关于禁止滥用知识产权排除、限制竞争行为的规)with an […]
Attached is a translation of proposed patent law amendments and explanatory notes that involve antitrust (particularly standards essential patents), courtesy of Steve Harris and Winston & Strawn. My blog on the patent law amendments […]
On April 2, 2015, the State Council Legislative Affairs Office (“SCLAO”) published a draft of the Service Invention Regulations along with an accompanying explanation. The draft was prepared with the assistance of SIPO and the […]
Today, April 1, SIPO started to solicit public comments on its new draft of Patent Law Amendments The deadline for submitting comments is April 28. The link underlined above includes links […]
With recent antitrust investigations in China, as well as China’s design to have more market-oriented targets for IP, export growth in IP rights from China is slated to grow from 1.36 billion USD […]
Here are the comments submitted by the sections on Antitrust Law and International Law of the American Bar Association on the draft Judicial Preservation on Action Preservation in IP and Competition Matters […]
I am sorry to report that Prof. Guo Shoukang 郭寿康, the UNESCO Professor of Copyright Law, emeritus, at Renmin University, died Monday March 22 at 12:35 PM. Prof. Guo was in his […]
According to various press reports, on March 9, 2105, the Guangzhou Specialized IP court issued a preliminary injunction in a copyright matter, Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase versus Chengdu Qiyou Limited (“Seven Games”)，Beijing […]
On March 5, I will be joining Prof. Barton Beebe and others at NYU in a luncheon discussion on IP issues in China. I have attended or spoken at several of these […]
On February 26, the Supreme People’s Court published for public Comment a draft SPC Judicial Interpretation on Concrete Issues in Application of Law in Determination of Action Preservation Measures in Intellectual Property […]
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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