I am sorry to report that Prof. Guo Shoukang 郭寿康, the UNESCO Professor of Copyright Law, emeritus, at Renmin University, died Monday March 22 at 12:35 PM. Prof. Guo was in his […]
Guo Shoukang, Eminent Scholar of IP Law, Passes Away
Dueling Software Data in the Spring and A Changing Tech Environment
夜来风雨声， 花落知多少? (At night the sound of wind and rain; Who knows how many flowers have fallen?; Poet Meng Haoran, 689-740, “Spring Dawn”) It is almost April, which means it is not […]
Service Inventions A Focus Point Once Again…
Although there is nothing under a year old when I looked today on SIPO’s s special service invention webpage, the topic of how much freedom employers have in determining how to reward […]
SPC’s Annual Report Gives A Passing Nod to IP
SPC President Zhou Qiang issued his 2015 Report on the Work of the the Supreme People’s Court to the National People’s Congress recently, and IP didn’t get much of coverage. However the […]
The World of Injunctions: Guangzhou Makes Its Mark
According to various press reports, on March 9, 2105, the Guangzhou Specialized IP court issued a preliminary injunction in a copyright matter, Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase versus Chengdu Qiyou Limited (“Seven Games”)，Beijing […]
“I’m Lovin’ it!” – A “Wrong Way” for McDonalds?
My colleague at Fordham Law, Geoffrey Sant, has written an interesting blog on Salon “McDonald’s self-hating complex: Why its overseas P.R. campaign is the worst of all time” that addresses McDonald’s Chinese […]
Geographical Indications: Guides and Commitments
The EU China IPR SME Help Desk recently published a Guide to Geographic Indications in China that may be useful for European companies seeking to protect geographical indications in China, and for […]
NYU Lunch Program on China IP on March 5, 2015
On March 5, I will be joining Prof. Barton Beebe and others at NYU in a luncheon discussion on IP issues in China. I have attended or spoken at several of these […]
Draft JI Issued by SPC for Action Preservation Measures in IP and Competition Law Matters
On February 26, the Supreme People’s Court published for public Comment a draft SPC Judicial Interpretation on Concrete Issues in Application of Law in Determination of Action Preservation Measures in Intellectual Property […]
Five Year Judicial Reform Plan And Specialized IP Courts
On February 26th, the Supreme Peoples Court released its fourth five year reform plan (2014-208) (最高人民法院关于全面深化人民法院改革的意见) (dated February 4, 2015). Intellectual Property is the third item listed of sixty-five action “Key Tasks […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 