On October 27, 2016, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) published the Draft (For Public Comment) of Revisions to the Patent Examination Guidelines. The Chinese text is available here. Comments on the draft should […]
SIPO Publishes Proposed Revisions to Patent Examination Guidelines
ABA Teleconference on Antitrust Investigations (10/17/16)
The American Bar Association has asked me to post a notice on this forthcoming conference on Chinese Antimonopoly Law investigations, which is also expected to cover the IP issues in AML investigations, […]
Upcoming Talk at NYU
I will be speaking on Monday October 10 at NYU’s Asian Law Institute. If interested, please RSVP to the indicated address right away: Joann.kim@nyu.edu. Check out usali.org for other useful China law […]
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 […]
Counterfeits in Microchannel Marketing … and Case Law
Amidst the escalating focus on online counterfeiting, piracy and patent infringement, online social media, such as WeChat are also becoming a source of infringing products, as documented in a Wall Street Journal […]
Some Good and Bad News in Recent Reports on China’s IP Environment
“The good news is China interested in IP, and the bad news is that China is interested in IP.” This proposition is proved by some of the recent reports on China’s IP […]
Qualcomm’s Litigation Strategies and Recent IP Developments in China
反者道之動。弱者道之用。 (道德經, Chap. 40) (Return is the movement of the Dao. Yielding is the way of the Dao. Daodejing, Chap. 40.) To the uninitiated, Qualcomm’s licensing practices in China must appear confusing. […]
Forthcoming Loyola/USPTO Conference on Chinese Entertainment Law
Loyola University Law School of Los Angeles and the USPTO are jointly sponsoring the first US-China Entertainment Law Conference on November 2, 2016. Registration information and other information are found here. The […]
USPTO and Renmin University Copyright Protection Program Highlights Importance of Copyright Reform for China
Last July 20, 2016，USPTO and Renimin University jointly hosted a program at Renmin University on Copyright Developments in China and the United States. The program was covered by some of the specialty […]
US & China Conclude High Level Exchange on Judicial Reform and Commercial Rule of Law
（photo by Mark Cohen） Last week, top U.S. and Chinese judges and legal experts came together to implement the agreement between Presidents Obama and Xi to hold a high level exchange on […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 