Peter Harter and Gene Quinn wrote an excellent blog recently (November 9, 2016) entitled “Trump on IP and Patent Reform: What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand.” The authors dispute the contention of some in […]
Kong Xiangjun Leaves Supreme People’s Court and Enters Academia
Chinese and Western media have reported that former Supreme People’s Court IPR Tribunal Chief Judge Kong Xiangjun and former Deputy Chief Judge of the SPC’s first Circuit Court has been dismissed […]
Summarizing the SPC’s 2015 White Paper
China releases much of its IP data in April, on the margins of World IP Day (April 26). This year there have been important conferences summarizing these reports in advance of […]
GAI and ABA Publish Their AUCL Comments
Attached are the comments of the American Bar Association Sections on International Law and Antitrust Law on the proposed draft revisions of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL) as well as comments of the Global […]
Imminent Program in Shanghai with the IP Judiciary
IP Key, the European program for IP cooperation with China is sponsoring an EU-China Judge’s forum in Shanghai on March 17-18. The program is jointly organized by IP Judicial Protection Research Center […]
Beginning the Journey for Trade Secret Reform: the Recent AUCL Draft
A much awaited, proposed public draft revision to the Antiunfair Competition Law was released by the State Council Legislative Affairs Office on February 25, 2016. Comments are due by March 25, 2016. […]
Of NDA’s and Smoking Guns: China’s Evolving Landscape of Trade Secret Protection
A recent class at Fordham law school with seasoned IP lawyer Benjamin Bai, of Allen & Overy’s Shanghai office, brought home to me some of the differences in substantive technological secret protection […]
Lilith Games v. uCool – Seeking Preliminary Relief in the US
Attached is the order denying a preliminary injunction in Lilith Games v uCool (N.D. Cal., Sept. 23, 2015). According to the order of Judge Conti, Lilith is a video game developer that released […]
IPR Outcomes in the 26th JCCT
Here are the IP outcomes of the 26th Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, concluded early in November 2015 in Guangzhou. The IP-related outcomes appear primarily in three different places in the […]
Federal Circuit Bar Hosts Discussion on Trade Secret Law Developments
Today, May 12, 2015, the Federal Circuit Bar Association in connjunction with the USPTO will host a discussion on trade secret legislative reform with Prof. Huang Wushuang of East China University of […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 