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 […]
JCCT 2014 Winds Up – Joint Fact Sheets Now Released
The 2014 JCCT was hosted by the US government in Chicago, Illinois this year. Here is a link to the updated English fact sheet (released Dec. 29) (Chinese:第25届中美商贸联委会联合成果清单) that is now a joint fact sheet. Here is […]
IP in the Xi-Obama Meeting – Following the Data Stream
There wasn’t much IP in the recent meeting of the Chinese and US heads of State at APEC in Beijing, nor should one expect more than a brief mentioning amongst all the […]
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 […]
MofCOM’s September 12 IP Program in DC Covers A Wide Range of IP Developments
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 […]
The SPC’s “Top Two” Dueling IPR Cases
The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) recently released its ten top cases for IP week at the end of April. Perhaps the most striking was the inclusion of the high-profile trade secret case […]
Through a Glass Less Darkly: China’s March to Administrative Enforcement Transparency
On November 20, the State Council, at an executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, approved the “Opinion on Making Publicly Available According to Law Information on Administrative Penalties Concerning the Production […]
China’s Judiciary Publishes Its Views on Trade Secret Protection
Several prominent Chinese judges recently published a Chinese language book on “The Judicial Protection of Trade Secrets” (商业秘密司法保护实务) (China Legal Publishing House May 2012) (536 pp, 98 RMB). The book is an […]
China IP Time and The New York Minute
China’s rapidly growing economy and equally rapidly evolving IP regime shows how different concepts of “time” can be from the United States.
SIPO announces Annual Strategy and Plans of Implementation for Intellectual Property in 2012
April 26 is International IP day, and in anticipation of the day, Chinese state agencies are announcing plans for intellectual property, releasing statistics, and holding conferences. The activities during this month are […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 