The recently released 2026 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (March 31, 2026) (the “NTE”) provides a useful opportunity to reassess U.S.–China intellectual property negotiations, particularly the Phase One Trade […]
Mark Cohen’s spring lecture agenda focuses on new developments in US-China IP relations, developments under Donald Trump, and practical aspects of licensing to or from China.
According to the official central Chinese government website, on December 5, 2018, Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council meeting which cleared the long awaited proposed draft of the patent law amendments. […]
The release of the TPP text on November 5, 2015 has caused many friends in Chinese IP colleagues to wonder what implications, if any, there are for China’s development of its IP […]
The 2014-15 US – China IP Cooperation Dialogue report has been just released by the US Chamber of Commerce. The Chinese title: 中美知识产权学者对话纪要. Here is a link to last year’s report for comparison. […]
At the end of last year, I noted that CFDA’s proposed new Drug Registration Rule could spell the end of China’s limited patent linkage regime. A new public comment draft of the […]
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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