The recent, successful launch of the ID5 (the Industrial Design 5) at the USPTO (picture above), with the participation of OHIM (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market of the EU), JPO, KIPO, […]
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 […]
Chinese Activity at WIPO A WIPO report released on March 19 noted that Huawei, with 3,442 published PCT applications, overtook Panasonic as the largest applicant in 2014. Qualcomm was the second largest […]
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 […]
USPTO recently released its 2014-2018 Strategic Plan (38 pp). Three specific goals are highlighted under USPTO’s efforts to “Work jointly with the administration to improve IP protection and enforcement in China.” These […]
On December 11, SIPO, USPTO and other patent offices (Japan, EPO, Germany and Korea) as well as companies and their counsel will be participating in an exciting international utility model program at […]
On October 3 the National Academies are hosting a program on “Management of Intellectual Property in Standards Setting Processes”. The China paper by Dan Breznitz and Michael Murphree, entitled “Shaking Grounds? Technology […]
From Director’s Forum: David Kappos’ Public Blog: On Sept 10, 2012 the USPTO was privileged to host Minister Zhou Bohua and his senior delegation from the State Administrative for Industry and Commerce […]
It is rare that I can blog on a patent issue in China that has implications reaching far beyond intellectual property, to property rights and civil law, WTO and TRIPS, and even […]
USPTO had released its report with links on patent enforcement in China. The reports summarize a series of roundtables and requests for information from a Federal Register notice. Others have previously blogged […]
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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