Category: Government & Regulations

Following My Father One Hundred Years Later

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On the 100th anniversary of my father Ronald Cohen’s birth, I look back at two public-health innovations he helped develop: a blocked-flue safety control designed to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning in New York City tenements in the 1950s, and a pre-World Wide Web computerized emergency-response network for hazardous-materials incidents in New Jersey in the 1980s. His experience also taught me an early lesson about patents: making an invention available for the public good does not mean that its inventor should go unrecognized. Looking back, I realize that my career protecting innovation followed my father’s work in public health more closely than I once understood.

SAMR’s “Choreography” of  SEP AML Rulemaking

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How should one understand the overlapping rules enacted by SAMR on IP, SEPS and antitrust? Is a new wave of legislation under way? Is China planning on ramping up antitrust enforcement in SEPs? What do these legislative experiments portend in terms of China’s commitments to rule of law and the challenges faced by high tech companies – whether implementer or licensor in China?

Bureaucracy and Politics in Recent SAMR Legislation

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There are numerous heirarchies to Chinese legislation and IP laws are certainly not an except to this. Due to the government reorganization in 2018, Chinese efforts to become an innovative economy, and external political pressure from the Trade War, there has also been extensive external political pressure on Chinese IP legislative efforts. The different approaches to legislating may indicate potential weaknesses in the laws. They may also be the outcome of internal bureaucratic struggles.