The China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR), at the request of the National Copyright Administration, released a report on April 26, 2016 on Copyright Protection in the Online Environment. The report noted that there were […]
On February 26th, the Supreme Peoples Court released its fourth five year reform plan (2014-208) (最高人民法院关于全面深化人民法院改革的意见) (dated February 4, 2015). Intellectual Property is the third item listed of sixty-five action “Key Tasks […]
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, […]
Intellectual Property Owners hosted a great webinar on “China’s New IP Courts: What U.S. Companies Need to Know.” Speakers include Benjamin Bai from Allen & Overy, Gang Hu from CCPIT Patent and […]
As we previously reported the NPC’s Standing Committee established three Specialized IP Courts in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. The Supreme People’s Court and the cities’ High Courts are now in the process […]
On Friday November 7 I attended and spoke at the US-China IP Summit at Loyola (https://chinaipr.com/2014/09/07/loyola-los-angeles-hosts-us-china-ip-summit-november-7/). Here are some highlights: Prof. David Nimmer (UCLA) talked about whether there is a need to reintroduce […]
There have been two documents released recently on specialized IP courts. One is the “Guiding Opinion of the Supreme Peoples Court on on the Work of Choosing Judges Rules for the IP […]
There are a number of developments in China’s efforts to roll out China’s three new specialized IP courts by the end of the year. Information is being shared at conferences, via […]
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 […]
According to Xinhua, on August 31, the NPC passed legislation establishing specialized IP courts (http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2014-08/31/c_1112298943.htm) (“Decision of the NPC Standing Committee on Establishing Specialized IP Courts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou”) As […]
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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