Author Archives: Dr. Danny Friedmann

Todd Mayover has an interesting site: IP Counsel blog. He blogged about a discussion of Lindsay Esler and Annie Tsoi of Law firm Deacons about intellectual property in China. Gives a good overview of the situation. Read more here.

What is happening at the WTO? Yesterday to my knowledge nothing IP relevant happened at the WTO. If I am wrong please inform me ipdragon (at) gmail.com However, I found a nice summary at Yale Global where Dr. Susan Ariel … Continue reading →

During an industry convention in Beijing, Motion Picture Assn. of America chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said: “In 2008, China will be at the center of the world stage, hosting the 29th Olympic Games. It will be a terrific moment … Continue reading →

What do you do if you are a Chinese wireless service provider such as Kongzhong in cut throat competition? You try to add more value to your service such as an upgraded answering tone that used to be tuu…., into … Continue reading →

The IP summit of the year is about to start. The highest decision-making body of the WTO is meeting tomorrow in Hong Kong to talk about free trade and intellectual property. There will be a TRIPS review. “Non-violation complaints are … Continue reading →

The impact of WTO rules and international practices is felt strongly in enterprises’ internal management, wrote Liu Weiling for the DailyChina. “Intellectual property rights (IPR), for example, was a strange concept for many domestic companies several years ago. But the … Continue reading →

Hong Kong Standard’s Ni Ching-Ching wrote: “When some people see us doing things like brand protection and movies, they think there’s something inappropriate,” Shi said. “But what we are doing is in keeping with tradition. Monks from every dynasty had … Continue reading →

Read here the BSA/IDC study. It includes a 32 page whitepaper. Here is the link to a one-page summary for China. The study was well picked up by the media: MercuryNews, InternetNews wrote articles about it.

Donald Clark, of the Chinese Law Professor Blog, posted about condoms that are marketed under the brandnames Clinton and Monica, without consulting Clinton or Monica. Read more here. previous TGIF next

Last month Yu, Bo of About Intellectual Property made a brief summary of the Chinese search engine case based on news reports about the Haidian District Court of Beijing, not from the court’s original decision. Great work. Read here.

The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts wrote an interesting article about China’s biggest search engine and its ambitious CEO Robin Li. “Critics say these are minor adjustments to a design and business model that is largely a copy of Google. The reason … Continue reading →

“The approval, by WTO headquarters in Geneva Tuesday for effecting changes to the intellectual property agreement, makes permanent a decision on patents and public health originally adopted in 2003. The latest decision comes a week after WTO members agreed to … Continue reading →

Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for Intellectual Property Victoria Espinel said December 7 that the trade office is collecting from U.S. industries information to see whether insufficient enforcement of IPR in China would justify a request for WTO dispute settlement … Continue reading →

Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA, producer of entreprise infrastructure software, is quoted by Daryl K. Taft in Extreme Nano that he expects to see China take a leading role in IT as it has in manufacturing. According to Chuang China … Continue reading →

Vincent Lam wrote an article in the China Daily about the rise in Chinese IT spending and the consequences for IP in China. ““As research and development across the region gears up, we see intellectual property (IP) protection following suit. … Continue reading →

Willow Duttge wrote an article about Hong Kong’s efforts to clean its streets of counterfeited goods before the WTO summit about free trade and IP enforcement will be held.China’s Special Economic Region with its own Rule of Law and IP … Continue reading →

China’s Patent law has come a long way. It was build from scratch and modernised very rapidly. It was for example only last year that the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) started accepting electronic patent applications. In 1994 Pfizer applied … Continue reading →

Beijing Haidian District People’s Court on Tuesday found internet portal Sina guilty of copyright infringement. It has broadcasted the concert of August 2005 named He Lan Shan Rock Music Festival of He Yong, a singer reports the Beijing Times. Sina … Continue reading →

Lawfirm Rouse & Co. International has an excellent newsletter about IP called China IP Express. It has already published number 268 and an archive dating back to 1999. See here. In it you can read about a landmark litigation relating … Continue reading →

‘Putting pirates behind bars is the best deterrent’ is the title of an article by Achara Ashayagachat in the Bangkok Times. Beside praising Hong Kong and Singapore’s approach of criminal sanctions to IP infringements the article cites law firm Franck … Continue reading →

Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court ruled that wines marketed by Xiang Mu Tong Trading and bottled by Xiamen Golden Huanya Food were too similar to the tradename Hennessy, registered in 1990 in China.They had been produced under the names … Continue reading →

Meaning of copyright in China: the right to copy Confucius is reported to have stated after completing a book: “I have finally finished my greatest work and I am proud to say that not a single idea in it is … Continue reading →

Newsweek’s George Wehrfritz has second thoughts about the halelujah stories on the Chinese economy. Overcapacity will be a key problem. GDP could nosedive. From 9,4 percent to 5 percent next year to 3 percent in 2007, according to Jim Walker, … Continue reading →

After settling their dispute over an IP infringement with US General Motors out of court, Chery Automobile Co. Ltd. finds itself in a new legal fight with Tencent, China’s biggest instant message service operator over the use of the name … Continue reading →

“We have filed altogether some 1,000 lawsuits on the Chinese mainland over piracy and won most of them,” said Zhong Yigang, the lawyer for Guangdong Meika. “In addition to getting consumers to pay attention to protection of intellectual property rights … Continue reading →

China and Taiwan were prominently present at the Plagiarus’ knockoff awards 2005. See here.The deadline to apply for the 2006 edition is January 16th. Found via Bruce Nussbaum in BusinessWeek.

Small and medium sized businesses in the US can get one hour of free help about how to protect their IP rights in China. The US Department of Commerce made this possible in partnership with the American Bar Association, the … Continue reading →

Dr Dinesh Moonshiram wrote in L’Express, a Mauritanian newspaper, a very informative article about the informal economy. His conclusion is that the disadvantages of the informal economy, such as the infringement of copyrights and other intellectual property rights outweigh the … Continue reading →