Late last month, MIIT’s IP Center had released a Template for Intellectual Property Rights Policies of Industry Standardization Organizations for public comment. According to MIIT’s IP Center, this is not a government […]
Two Upcoming Conferences
MIIT’s IP Center is hosting its annual program on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law December 10-11 in Beijing. Information is available here. For information on the IP Center see http://www.miitip.com/, or […]
Loyola/Berkeley/Renmin Program Highlights Recent US-China IP Developments
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 […]
FTC Chairwoman Ramirez on China’s Approach to Licensing Standards Essential Patents in China
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Ramirez recently delivered a speech on “Standards-Essential Patents and Licensing: An Antitrust Enforcement Perspective at Georgetown University’s Global Antitrust Conference” (Sept. 10, 2014). Here’s what she said […]
ABA Comments on Patent Judicial Intepretation (2)
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 […]
The Real Mischief of Tianjin’s Patenting Police Chief

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 […]