“The 60-year-old Yin Zhiyi (Gerald Yin) resolutely gave up the US’s annual salary of one million dollars, broke through the layers of US government review, … He led a team of more […]
Because of its strategic importance to both the United States and China, the IC sector is a useful example of how Chinese policies and plans may – or may not – be […]
There have been a number of empirical reports in recent weeks on China’s IP system. In this blog, I look at the annual Supreme People’s Court 2017 Report on the Situation Regarding […]
China steps up scrutiny of IP transfers to foreign firms on national security grounds: Under new regulations issued by the State Council on Thursday, technology transfers include IP transfers that are part […]
1. China Now Number 2 PCT Filer. China has overtaken Japan to claim second place as a source of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in 2017. In 2017, U.S.-based applicants numbered 56,624 PCT, […]
IP House has recently published a Statistical Report on IP Cases in the Medical and Health Industry (December 2017) (Chinese language) covering 391 medical and health industry cases closed from January 1, […]
Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Dr. Emilio Raiteri (both at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland) have recently offered interesting statistical evidence for preferential treatment of domestic applicants […]
The Federal Circuit Bar Association and USPTO announced on July 17, 2017 that they are hosting a webinar on the latest research and developments in standards essential patents (SEPs) in China on […]
The China Patents and Trademarks journal has now made publicly available the article I wrote late last year with former USPTO Director David Kappos and former Chief Judge Randall Rader (ret.) “Faux […]
There continue to be various thrusts and feints in these early days of the Trump administration on Chinese IP related matters. Here’s a quick rundown. Tim Trainer, a friend and former colleague, […]
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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