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 […]
Of NDA’s and Smoking Guns: China’s Evolving Landscape of Trade Secret Protection
US-China Legal Exchange to Highlight IP Issues in Palo Alto and Washington DC
The 20th annual US-China Legal Exchange will occur February 29 and March 2, 2016 n Palo Alto, California and at the USPTO in Alexandria, Virginia (near Washington, DC). Registration and additional information […]
Slouching Towards Innovation – A Survey of the Surveys on China’s IP Environment
Here is a summary of the business surveys on IP protection in China, drawn from the European Chamber of Commerce in China, Business Confidence Survey 2015 (June, 2015), the US China Business […]
How The Blog Did Last Year…
Last year was another great year for the blog. Our subscribers doubled, and our direct hits and page views increased by about 10% to over 55,000. The proportion of non-United States readers […]
Justice Tao Kaiyuan and the Role of the Judiciary
Justice Tao Kaiyuan of the Supreme People’s Court, who had been to the United States in 2015 delivering important speeches on rule of law, has recently published an article on “Giving Full […]
GAI’S Comments on NDRC’s IP Abuse Guidelines
“[T]he code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules” (Barbossa, Pirates of the Carribean, The Curse of the Black Pearl). Attached find the comments of the Global Antitrust Institute of […]
GAI Comments on SAIC IP Abuse Guidelines, NDRC’s Up For Comment
Attached are the comments in English of the Global Antitrust Institute on SAIC’s draft IPR Abuse, as well as the Chinese Translation) (received January 14 here at chinaipr.com) NDRC’s comments are also up […]
Deconstructing the State Council’s Opinion on Building a Strong IP Nation
The State Council has been publishing several opinions over the past few years in order to guide China’s efforts to become an innovative economy. These include an opinion on cloud computing (Feb. […]
Beijing Higher People’s Court Recognises “Merchandising Rights” as Tool to Fight Bad-faith Applications
Authored by Mr. Zhao Kefeng (zhaokefeng@anjielaw.com) and Mr. Han Jinwen (hanjinwen@anjielaw.com) at Anjie Law Firm, first published November 3, 2015 and reprinted by permission. In a recent trademark opposition case involving the famous film Kung Fu […]
A Pair of Experiments in the Beijing IP Court
Back in 2012, I noted that “[t]he Chinese civil judiciary is pursuing reform and gaining experience, as Deng Xiaoping noted, by crossing the river by feeling the stones. A disproportionate part of […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 