Today, February 15, 2015, is the Presidents Day holiday in the United States. This holiday celebrates the birthdays of two of America’s greatest presidents, George Washington (February 22), and Abraham Lincoln (February […]
The South China Morning Post reported recently on jailhouse inventors, a topic that you may have first read about here. According to the SCMP and Beijing Youth Daily, various provinces have different […]
Nearly every week there is a new development somewhere in the world on IP and standards. China has been no exception. I already blogged about several of them of them, including EIPC […]
EIPC MIIT’s Conference on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law convened on December 10 and 11 in Beijing. The conference brought together about 150 international and Chinese experts, including lawyers, judges, academics, […]
Thomson Reuters just released a new report on China’s Innovation Quotient (Trends in Patenting and China’s Trends in Global Innovation). This is the fourth in a very useful multi-year series on Chinese […]
Here is a digest of some of the highlights of the half day program hosted by MofCOM on IP in Washington DC on September 12. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate gave a useful […]
SIPO’s six month report on patent filings, available on line in China shows some surprising data for the first six months of 2014. Regionally, Jiangsu and Beijing are in the number 1 […]
The American Bar Association has released its comments on the recently released draft judicial interpretation (JI) on patent litigation, no. 2, available here. Articles 1, 10 and 24 deal with patent law […]
Many media, including the Wall Street Journal, have reported on Tianjin police chief, Wu Changshun 武長順, who seems to be following in the footsteps of Chengdu police chief Wang Lijun, 王立军 as […]
On July 16, the Supreme Peoples Court published a public comment draft of proposed revisions to its “Decision of the SPC Regarding Questions of Application of Law in Adjudication of Patent Cases”, […]
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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