The Walt Disney Company continues to zealously protect its various brands, including Winnie the Pooh. China Daily reported last month that Disney won a law suit against an apparent trademark squatter. The […]
Changing Times in China’s Hundred Acre Wood
IP Position Opens at USTR
USTR is looking for a “trade analyst” who, ideally, can speak Chinese and will be engaged in “IPR and innovation trade problems.” The deadline for applying is January 2, 2015. Here is a […]
Standards and IP – December Updates
Nearly every week there is a new development somewhere in the world on IP and standards. China has been no exception. I already blogged about several of them of them, including EIPC […]
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 […]
A Quick Report on the EIPC MIIT Conference Including SAIC’s IP Abuse Rules, Patent Law Amendments, EIPC MIIT Standardization Policies, Standards and IP Abuse…
EIPC MIIT’s Conference on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law convened on December 10 and 11 in Beijing. The conference brought together about 150 international and Chinese experts, including lawyers, judges, academics, […]
China’s Patent Domination?
Thomson Reuters just released a new report on China’s Innovation Quotient (Trends in Patenting and China’s Trends in Global Innovation). This is the fourth in a very useful multi-year series on Chinese […]
China’s Explosion in Administrative IP Appeals and Its Impact on the New Beijing Specialized IP Court
As I have previously blogged here, China’s specialized IP courts are in fact a kind of misnomer: their jurisdictional bases are directed more towards technology-related IP (patents, technical secrets, plant varieties, semiconductor […]
Benjamin Liu – Losing a Dear Colleague
I received today the very sad news that Benjamin Liu, a Professor at John Marshall Law School, who was especially strong in biotech issues, passed away yesterday, Dec. 1, 2014. Benjamin was a […]
Developments in Foreign-Related Cases, IP and Otherwise
Here’s an excellent posting from a “sister blog”, Susan Finder’s Supreme People’s Court Monitor, on developments in foreign-related cases in China. The blog points to legal reforms in process that could result in a more […]
Some Comments on MIIT’s Template for IP Policies in Industry Standards Organizations
Late last month, MIIT’s IP Center had released a Template for Intellectual Property Rights Policies of Industry Standardization Organizations for public comment. According to MIIT’s IP Center, this is not a government […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 