IP Dragon tweets
Sorry, no Tweets were found.
IP Dragon editor
Publications Danny Friedmann
IP Dragon quoted in the media
- South China Morning Post
- InsideCounsel, Feb 1, 2012
- US ITC: China: Effects of Intellectual Property Infringement and Indigenous Innovation Policies on the U.S. Economy, May 2011
- Advertising Age, Oct 21, 2010
- Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2009
- Wall Street Journal, Oct 7, 2008
- Wall Street Journal, Sept 11, 2008
- Reuters June 5, 2008
- France24, July 7, 2009
- Popular Science, July 8, 2007
- Asia Sentinel, May 28, 2007
- Wanfang Data, affiliate of China's Ministry of Science & Technology), Sept 11, 2008
- World Trademark Review, December 6, 2010
- World Trademark Review, April/May 2010
- World Trademark Review, June 9, 2009
- World Trademark Review, March 13, 2009
- World Trademark Review, January 29, 2009
- World Trademark Review, January 15, 2009
- EUROCHAMBRES Understanding China, July 7, 2010
- Global Resources, November 19, 2010
IP Dragon cited in scholarly papers
- Andrea Wechsler, China’s WTO Accession Revisited: Achievements and Challenges in Chinese Intellectual Property Law Reform (March 3, 2011). European Yearbook of Int'l Econ. L., Max Planck Institute for IP & Competition Law Research Paper No. 11-03, 2011
- Jesse London, China's Approaches to Intellectual Property Infringement on the Internet, 38 Rugers Law Record 2010-2011
- Anders Dalsgaard, Protection of IP in PRC: Is it really as bad as it looks? Aarhus University Denmark, May 2011
- Demian Stauber, Zhongqi Zhou, 10 U.C. Davis Bus. L.J. 207 (2010)
- Geertje Hesselink, Intellectual Property rights in fashion in China and the knowledge of young Chinese designer on this topic,Master Thesis Cultural Economics & Cultural Entrepreneurship, 2010
- Sarah A. Baird, Contentious Issues: Copyright Reform in the Age of Digital Technologies, December 2009
- Marcus Meyer, Marken- und Productpiraterie in der VR China: Eine umfassende Darstellung des zur Verfugung stehenden Rechtsschutzes, Igel Verlag, 2008, p 80
- Donald Harris, The Honeymoon is Over: Evaluating the United States' WTO Intellectual Property Complaint Against China, Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 32, 2009; Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-76
- J.M. Duncan, M.A. Sherwood, Yuanlin Shen, 7 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 529 (2008)
- Dina Bronshtein, Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals in China: Could Changes Bring Stronger Protection For IPR and Human Health? 17 Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 439, 2008
- Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, Chinese Copyright Law, Peer Production And The Participatory Media Age: An Old Regime In A New World, Sydney U. Press, 2008
- M.J. Simburg, 42 Int'l Law. 467 (2008)
- P. Dervan, Journal of High Technology Law, Suffolk U. Law School, 2008
- Terence Stewart, Elizabeth Argenti, Philip Butler, The Crisis in IP Protection And China's Role in that Crisis, USCC Research Paper, May 2007
- Paul Jones, China - Judicial and Legislative Update 2005-2006, 4 International Journal for Franchising Law 11, 2006
Speaking Engagements
- China's influence on non-trade concerns on international economic law, Maastricht University, 19 and 20 January 2012
- 3rd Global Forum on Intellectual Property, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore 6 and 7 January 2011
- 7th Annual Asia-Pacific IP Forum 2010, Speaker on Social Networks and Trademarks, Sheraton Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong, September 1, 2010
- Lunch presentation at Baker & McKenzie's Hong Kong office with video link to Baker's Shanghai and Beijing office, 'Is China's Unique Patent Law Paving the Way for Innovation?', 5 August 2010
- 2nd Annual IPR seminar Speaker and panelist at 'Managing IPR as a Business Asset in China', China IPR SME Helpdesk, European Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 25 June 2010
- Key Note Speaker Intellectual Property in China and the Netherlands, Rotterdam, 28 May 2008
SHENZHEN TIME
IPR in China Laws and Regulations
- Copyright Law Implementation PR of China 2002
- Copyright Law, Amended PR of China 2001
- Copyright Law Implementation PR of China 1991
- Provisions on the Implementation of International Copyright Conventions 1992
- Copyright Law PR of China 1990
- Copyright Collective Management Regulations PR of China 2004
- Copyright Administrative Punishment Implementation Rules 2009
- Trademark Law Implemention PR of China 2002
- Regulations on the Protection of the Right of Communication through Information Network PR of China 2006
- Measures for the Administrative Protection of Internet Copyright 2005
- Trademark Law PR of China 2001
- Trademark Law PR of China 1993
- Collective/Certification Marks 2003
- Collective/Certification Marks 1994
- Trademark Provisions on Claims for Priority 1985
- Well-known-trademarks Recognition/Protection 2003
- Implementation Madrid Agreement 2003
- TRAB Rules 2002
- Tort Liability Law 2009
- Product Quality Law 2000
- Punishment of the Crime of Fake or Substandard Commodities PR of China 1993 invalid
- Measures for the Administration of GI of Agricultural Products 2008
- Geographical Indication Products Protection PR of China 2005
- Administrative Measures Safety of Places of Origin of Agricultural Products 2006
- Implementing Regulations on Patent Law 2010
- Regulation on National Defense Patent 2004
- Standard for Application Patent Number 2003
- Opinion of the MOFTEC/SIPO on Strengthening Administration of Patents in Foreign Trade 2003
- Measures for Administrative Enforcement of Patent 2001
- Patent Law Implementation PR of China 2001
- Decision of the Standing Committee of NPC on Amendmend of Patent Law 2008
- Transitional Measures on Implementation of Amended Patent Law 2009
- Patent Law PR of China 2008
- Guidelines for Examination 2006
- Patent Law PR of China 2000
- Patent Law PR of China 1992
- Patent Law Implementing Regulations 1992
- Patent Law PR of China 1984
- Protection Measures for Intellectual Property Rights during Exhibitions PR of China 2006
- Science and Technology Progress Law PR of China 1993
- Anti-unfair Competition Law 1993
- Regulations of PR of China on Awards for Inventions 1978
- Regulations on the Protection of Types of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1993)
- Civil Law General Principles PR of China
- Civil Procedure Law PR of China
- Administrative Procedure Law 1989
- Software Protection Regulations PR of China 2002
- Administrative Procedure Law PR of China
- Customs Penalty Regulations PR of China 2004
- Customs Implementation Regulations PR of China 2004
- Customs Regulations PR of China 2003
- Customs Regulations PR of China 1995
- Customs Law PR of China 2001
- Criminal Law PR of China
- Criminal Procedure Law PR of China
- Unfair Competition Law PR of China 1993
- Anti Monopoly Law PR of China 2007
- Layout Design IC Regulations PR of China 2001
- Layout Design IC Implementation PR of China 2001
- Olympic Logo Regulations PR of China 2002
- Regulation on Radio and Television PR of China 1997
- Property Rights Law PR of China
- Constitution PR of China
- Legislation Law PR of China
- National IP Strategy PR of China 2008
- Action Plan PR of China 2008
- Action Plan PR of China 2007
- Action Plan PR of China 2006
- Action Plan PR of China 1995
- Foreign Trade Law PR of China 2004
- Foreign Trade Law PR of China 1994
- Regulations on the Protection of Types of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1993)
- Law on Guarding State Secrets 1988
Patent Law and Regulations in China
Judicial Interpretations by Supreme People’s Court and/or Supreme People’s Procuratorate
- Patent Civil Dispute Interpretation
- Trademark Civil Dispute Interpretation
- Copyright Civil Dispute Interpretation 2002
- Application of law to trial of cases over copyright disputes on networks 2004
- Adjudication/application of law to cases of copyright disputes on networks 2000
- Regulations on Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination of Information 2006
- Patent Law Pre-trial Cessation
- Trademarks Pre-trial Suspension Evidence Preservation
- Criminal Thresholds 2007 (Draft)
- Criminal Thresholds 2004
IPR Relevant Treaties in force in China
- WIPO Copyright Treaty (2007)
- WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (2007)
- WIPO Singapore Treaty (signature 2007)
- UNESCO Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expression (2007)
- WTO TRIPs (2001)
- Working Party Report on the Accession of China (2001)
- WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding (2001)
- WTO Acession Protocol (2001)
- WIPO UPOV Convention (1999)
- UN Vienna Treaty Convention (1997)
- WIPO Strasbourg Agreement IPC June (1997)
- WIPO Locarno Agreement (1996)
- Sino-US IPR MOU Action Plan for Effective Protection/Enforcement 1995
- WIPO Madrid Protocol (1995)
- WIPO Budapest Treaty (1995)
- Agreement Establishing the WTO (1995)
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (1994)
- WIPO Nice Agreement (1994)
- WIPO Trademark Law Treaty (signature 1994)
- WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (1994)
- WIPO Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms (1993)
- WIPO Phonograms Convention (1993)
- Sino-US IPR Memorandum of Understanding 1992
- WIPO Berne Convention (1992)
- UNESCO Universal Copyright Convention (1992)
- WIPO Washington Treaty (signature 1990)
- WIPO Madrid Agreement (Marks) (1989)
- WIPO Paris Convention (1985)
- WIPO Establishing Convention 1980
- Costa Rica - China FTA (2011)
- New Zealand-China FTA (2008)
- Pakistan-China FTA (2006)
- China-Chile FTA (2005)
China’s IP Related Authorities
Hong Kong’s IP Ordinances
- Copyright (Suspension of Amendments) Ordinance 2001
- Copyright Ordinance
- Director of Intellectual Property (Establishment) Ordinance
- Layout-design (Topography) of Integrated Circuits Ordinance
- Organized and Serious Crime Ordinance
- Patents Ordinance
- Plant Varieties Protection Ordinance
- Prevention of Copyright Piracy Ordinance
- Registered Designs Ordinance
- Trade Descriptions Ordinance
- Trade Marks Ordinance
- Basic Law 1997
International Treaties Applicable to Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s IP authority
Macau’s IP Laws
Macau’s IP authority
Taiwan’s IP Laws
Taiwan’s IP Related Authority
IP Faculties and Research Institutes
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- Boston University IP
- Cardozo Intellectual Property and Information Center
- Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle
- Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property
- East China University of Politics and Law Shanghai
- Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy
- Franklin Pierce Center of Intellectual Property
- High Tech Law Institute
- Institute for Information Law Amsterdam (IViR)
- Institute for IP and Information Law (U of Houston)
- IP Academy Singapore
- Kernochan Center for Law Media and the Arts
- Max Planck Institute of Intellectual Property Competition and Tax Law
- McGill Centre for Intellectual Property Policy Montreal
- Renmin University of China School of Law Beijing
- Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic
- Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Chinese blogs/sites/committees about IP in China
- Andrew C. Mertha
- BioIPR-COM
- Blawg Dog
- China IPR Law
- Danwei
- Intellectual Property in China 知识产权与中国发展
- Intellectual Property Rights Protection Alliance
- IP Menu
- IP Webcasting Hong Kong
- IP.People.com.cn
- IPR.gov.cn
- More blogs about IP in China
- Patent Agent in Hong Kong
- Peter K. Yu
- Quality Brands Protection Committee
- Southern Perspective Shenzhen
China Blogs
- All Roads Lead To China
- Asia Business Intelligence
- China and International Law
- China Business Law Blog 中國商法博客
- China Challenges
- China Economics Blog
- China Esquire
- China Hearsay
- China Herald
- China Journal Wall Street Journal
- China Law Blog
- Chinese Law Working Group
- Emerging Capital
- Experience not logic
- International Economic Law and Policy Blog
- Little Red Book
- Modern Asian History: Myths and Realities
- PanAsianBiz
- The China Game
- This is China! Blog
- Uculture
- WTO and China
- 中外对话 China Dialogue
IP Blogs
- Afro-IP
- Boek 9 (Dutch)
- CIPP McGill Blog
- Class 46
- Counterfeit Chic
- Intellectual Property Watch
- Invisible Gold in China
- IP Finance
- IP Kat
- IP Tango
- Ipeg
- IPR Transatlantic Collaboration
- nipc IP/it Update
- No to Fakes
- Philip Brooks'Patent Infringement Updates
- Professor Justin Hughes
- Small Business IP Protection and Management
- SPC Blog
- The Counterfeit Blog
- The Fire of Genius
- The Gray Blog
- The Trademark Blog
- Transnational Law Blog
- Vox PI
Blog Archive
IPR Holders Representatives/Anti-piracy/-counterfeiting
- ABAC-BAAN
- ACG
- AGMA
- AIM
- AIPPI
- All-China Patent Agents Association
- Alliance against IP theft
- APM
- ARCC
- Auteursrecht
- BASCAP
- BIG Web
- BPG
- Brand Protection Alliance
- BREIN
- British brands group
- BSA
- CAAST
- Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy
- Coalition for intellectual property rights
- Danish Anti-Counterfeiting Group (Danish)
- ECAP II
- ECTA
- FACG
- FACT
- FAST
- Filmwereld
- IACC
- ICC Commercial Crime Service
- IDSA
- IFPI
- IIPA
- INDICAM
- Innovation Alliance
- IP Federation
- IP Institute
- IPOS
- IPR Helpdesk
- IRMA
- Marques
- MPA
- MPAA
- NACG (Norwegian)
- NMPA
- No to fakes
- Pro-Music
- RIAA
- SABAM
- SACG
- SIIA
- SNB-REACT
- Stop Fakes
- The Industry Trust
- Trade Marks Patents and Designs Federation
- Union des Fabricants
- World Cinema Alliance
Tags
- Apple
- Baidu
- Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court
- brand
- BSA
- China
- China Daily
- China Hearsay
- copyright
- copyright infringement
- Copyright Law
- copyright piracy
- counterfeit
- counterfeit trademark
- customs
- EU
- geographical indications
- Hong Kong
- Huawei
- innovation
- intellectual property in China
- IP Dragon
- Japan
- Louis Vuitton
- Microsoft
- patent
- patent infringement
- patent law
- patents
- professor David Llewelyn
- SAIC
- Shenzhen
- Singapore
- SIPO
- statistics
- Supreme People's Court
- Taiwan
- trademark
- trademark infringement
- Trademark Law
- TRIPs
- WIPO
- WTO
- WTO Dispute Settlement
- No tweets available at the moment.
Author Archives: Dr. Danny Friedmann
List of 100 Western Songs Must Be Removed By September 15, 2011
Tania Branigan reports about newly banned list of 100 Western songs that are not approved by the Ministry of Culture. All links to these songs must be removed by music websites in China by September 15th, 2011. The reason: because they … Continue reading
Tagged China Copyright and Media, GAPP, Lady Gaga, Ms Tania Branigan, music, Rogier Creemers, The Guardian
Comments Off on List of 100 Western Songs Must Be Removed By September 15, 2011
John Marshall Law School Launches Chinese IP Resource Center in Chicago
A new wind from China has arrived in the windy cityPhoto: Danny Friedmann John Marshall Law School located in Chicago, US, has launched a Chinese Intellectual Property Resource Center, see here. Since 2007 the law school also has a China IP … Continue reading
Tagged Asian Alliance Program, CCPIT Patent and Trademark Law Office's, Chicago, China IP Resource Center, John Marshall Law School, McAndrews Held and Malloy, SIPO
Comments Off on John Marshall Law School Launches Chinese IP Resource Center in Chicago
Bright Food Takes Over Manassen Foods: Bright Future for Food Safety?
Many roads, but some are superior in the long runPhoto: Danny Friedmann Many Chinese consumers prefer foreign goods, because they are perceived as safe. Notwithstanding that foreign brands are often victim of being counterfeited. Now there are at least the … Continue reading
Tagged Bright Food, food safety, Manassen Foods, Patti Waldmeier, Peter Smith
Comments Off on Bright Food Takes Over Manassen Foods: Bright Future for Food Safety?
Must Read Monday: China Should Change Its Perspective From Engineer To Marketeer
From an engineer’s to a marketeer’s perspective, one bridge too far?Photo: Danny Friedmann Malcolm Moore wrote a great article for The Telegraph about China’s challenges to transform its industries from the world’s manufacturers to the world’s innovators, and how this … Continue reading
Tagged Chinese walls, Foxconn, Malcolm Moore, Must Read Monday, The Telegraph, trademark
Comments Off on Must Read Monday: China Should Change Its Perspective From Engineer To Marketeer
Honey Laundering, Or How Chinese Lead And Indian Antibiotics Become Indian “Honey”
IP Dragon Weekend Edition 蜜蜂 (Mandarin mi4 feng1 Cantonese mat6 fung1) = honey bee 蜂蜜 (Mandarin feng1 mi4 Cantonese fung1 mat6) = bee honey Two time Pulitzer-prize winning reporter for investigative journalism, Andrew Schneider wrote an interesting article about Chinese honey … Continue reading
Tagged China, FDA, health and safety risks, honey laundering, India
Comments Off on Honey Laundering, Or How Chinese Lead And Indian Antibiotics Become Indian “Honey”
Trademarks That “Innovate and Beautify Life”: China Trademark Festival, Chengdu
“Dreaming of innovative and beautifying trademarks“Photo: Danny Friedmann To avoid confusion: – the cat’s name is Puma not IP Kat … Continue reading
Tagged Chengdu, China Trademark Festival, Lehman Lee Xu, Sichuan, trademark, 第四届中国商标节
Comments Off on Trademarks That “Innovate and Beautify Life”: China Trademark Festival, Chengdu
Rouse: IP China Express 340
” IP in China, dusk or dawn?“Photo: Danny Friedmann In the 340th IP China Express Rouse, the international IP business selected the following news items: – Rubber products manufacturer Freudenberg victorious in a trademark conflict that has been going on … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing First intermediate People' s Court, Kawasaki, Mr Lin Binjie, Procter and Gamble, Rouse, Shanghai Second Intermedia People's Court, trademark, train
Comments Off on Rouse: IP China Express 340
EU, U.S. Perception: “China Is Discriminating”. What Are We Going To Do Against It?
US: We have so manystars, we deserve to be treated accordingly in China U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is visiting China to try to smooth the Sino-Chinese relations (one can argue that the U.S. is borrowing money from China to import from … Continue reading
Tagged AmCham, Beijing, Davide Cucino, EUCCC, Hu Jintao, Joe Biden, market access restriction, Piter de Jong, Shanghai, Xi Jinping, 习近平, 胡锦涛
Comments Off on EU, U.S. Perception: “China Is Discriminating”. What Are We Going To Do Against It?
Ernst & Young Report: The Benefits of software IPR protection in China
Unlicensed software should be cleaned upPhoto: Danny Friedmann Not only the Business Software Association writes interesting reports about intellectual property in China in relation to software. Ernst & Young who are in the assurance, tax, transactions and advisory business, just … Continue reading
Tagged BSA, Computers, Ernst and Young
Comments Off on Ernst & Young Report: The Benefits of software IPR protection in China
Is China Copying Black Hawk Helicopter Technology That Crashed Into Bin Laden’s Backyard?
“Why are you flying above me?””“Keep flying, you are my stealth technology.” Isn’t it the dream of each intelligence service that the state, military and trade secrets literally fly and crash upon your territory? This dream came true for the … Continue reading
Tagged Black Hawk, China, military, Pakistan, trade secret
Comments Off on Is China Copying Black Hawk Helicopter Technology That Crashed Into Bin Laden’s Backyard?
How To Transform The Image of Chinese Brands? Hint … It’s Not Product Placements
Product Placements Some movies have become a series of commercials with a story line. Thanks to the lucrative business of product placements. Transformers (变形金刚) 3 which opened in cinemas in China on July 21, 2011 shows an abundance of Chinese brands: … Continue reading
IPO Candidate Tudou Is Building Its Patent Portfolio For Future Growth, Promoting Chinese Creativity
With 90.1 million registered users, Tudou 土豆, which means potato, is no small potato. The site for investors ‘Seeking Alpha’ gives an analysis of the Chinese online video site Tudou.com 土豆网 (for which they use the symbol TUDO) in relation to its … Continue reading
Tagged China Daily, copyright infringement, film, IP portfolio, IP strategy, IPO, patents, Seeking Alpha, Tudou, 土豆网
Comments Off on IPO Candidate Tudou Is Building Its Patent Portfolio For Future Growth, Promoting Chinese Creativity
Fry Phone: Fry Your Brain With Phoney Phone (HiPhone5)
By Michiel Tjoe-AwieFake phone Yang Xi reports for China.org.cn about the Chinese copycat of the Apple iPhone5 that hits the market. Of course it can do what the leaked iPhone5 can do, but it is served with a free dessert: … Continue reading
Tagged Apple, HiPhone5, iPhone5, phony phone
Comments Off on Fry Phone: Fry Your Brain With Phoney Phone (HiPhone5)
Must Read Monday: Kan Zu On The Art Of Patent Enforcement
Medium shifting from Sun Tzu to Kan Zu:patents instead of arms,LED screen instead of bamboo Sun Tzu wrote about the Art of War. Competition between companies is a kind of war, whereby the only potential fatality is the bankruptcy of … Continue reading
Tagged claim construction, declaratory judgment, design patent, doctrine of equivalents, double patenting, file wrapper estoppel, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kan Zu, means plus function claim, prior art, remedies, Unitalen
Comments Off on Must Read Monday: Kan Zu On The Art Of Patent Enforcement
Tourists Duped By Soviet Union Memorabilia Made in China
Lenin pinmade in USSR ormade in China? “I said export world revolution not revolutionary cheap pins to the world” What happens when a nominal communist state is making communist memorabilia of a former communist state? Yes, the communist memorabilia market run by … Continue reading
Tagged artisans, counterfeit souvenirs, Moscow Times, USSR
Comments Off on Tourists Duped By Soviet Union Memorabilia Made in China
Sober Advice To Stop Counterfeit Wine As Lafite Bubble in China Attracts More Counterfeiters
China counterfeiters produce more “Lafite” then you can ever find in the Château Lafite Rothschild cellars in France Photo: Wikipedia about Château Lafite Rothschild No, Lafite is not a kind of Champagne. It has no bubbles inside. But the market for … Continue reading
Tagged Chateau Lafite, counterfeit wine, geographical indications, Zhongguo Wine
Comments Off on Sober Advice To Stop Counterfeit Wine As Lafite Bubble in China Attracts More Counterfeiters
Sunday Local Selection: 95.6 mln RMB question, Hebei good/bad/ugly, new BMW product?, Taiwan Straits IP Centre, Nanning achievements, Starve Cancer to Death Medicine
Some local news items of China Intellectual Property 中國知識產權, Xinhuanet.com, Hebei.gov.cn, CNR.cn, Stats.gov.cn and China Quality Daily were presented in one article by China Daily about the following locations: Beijing, Hebei, Fujian, Guangxi, Guangdong. The 95.6 million Renminbi questionThe first item … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, independent intellectual property in China, local, medicines, patent subsidy, SIPO, Taiwan Straits, Zhongshan University
Comments Off on Sunday Local Selection: 95.6 mln RMB question, Hebei good/bad/ugly, new BMW product?, Taiwan Straits IP Centre, Nanning achievements, Starve Cancer to Death Medicine
8th Asia-Pacific IP Forum in Hong Kong
Thursday 29 September, the eight Asia-Pacific IP Forum will be held at the Kowloon Shangri-La in Hong Kong. It is a fully packed day organised by Managing Intellectual Property magazine, free for in-house counsels. The following speakers will talk about the … Continue reading
Tagged Ada Leung, Asia Pacific IP Forum, Bayer, Benjamin Choi, Customs and Excise Department, Elliot Papageorgiou, Hong Kong, Mayer Brown JSM, Mr Albert Ho, Mr Oliver Lutze, Rouse
Comments Off on 8th Asia-Pacific IP Forum in Hong Kong
Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur: Nothing Wrong With Graduated Response
Dear Mr Frank La Rue, With interest I have read your report (May 16, 2011) for the Human Rights Council on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the concern you have for the graduated … Continue reading
Tagged Copyright Ordinance, graduated response, Hong Kong, human rights, ISP liability, Mr Frank La Rue, online service providers, three strikes system
Comments Off on Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur: Nothing Wrong With Graduated Response
Free Trade Agreement Between Costa Rica and China
Professor Aurelio López-Tarruella Martinez of the University of Alicante makes us aware via IP Tango that on August 1, 2011, two Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) entered into force: between Peru and Korea and between Costa Rica and China. Let’s focus on the … Continue reading
Tagged Aurelio López-Tarruella Martinez, Costa Rica, folklore, FTA, generic resources, geographical indications, traditional knowledge, University of Alicante
Comments Off on Free Trade Agreement Between Costa Rica and China
Synchronicity in Trademark Applications in China: from a first-to-file to a first-to-use to a divination system
“Let’s not look at the timekeeping equipment, let’s draw lots“ There is a theory of synchronicity of cultural artifacts. For example pyramids being build both in Egypt and in Middle and South America around the same time, or the simultaneous … Continue reading
Tagged China Intellectual Property 中國知識產權, same day, Shi Xinzhang, Trademark Law PR of China
Comments Off on Synchronicity in Trademark Applications in China: from a first-to-file to a first-to-use to a divination system
Must Read Monday: Bye Bye Shanzhai, Hello Mainstream Smartphones
Photo: Close EncountersTo Migrate or not. A wildebeest‘s dilemma:“Starvation if I stay, or risk of being eaten by a crocodile if I go“ Shen Jingting wrote an excellent article for China Daily about the epic migration taking place within the Shenzhen … Continue reading
Tagged China Daily, G'Five International, Huawei, mobile, Mororala, Must Read Monday, Samsung, shanzhai, Shen Jingting, Shenzhen, ZTE
Comments Off on Must Read Monday: Bye Bye Shanzhai, Hello Mainstream Smartphones
Long Island Professor: “Chinese Counterfeiters Cannot Replicate Services” Yes, They Can
Can people outside Long Islandreally pour a sturdy Long Island Iced Tea? Panos Mourdoukouras, professor of economics of Long Island University, gave some reasons for the existence of counterfeit and knock-off retail outlets in China with which I did not … Continue reading
Tagged 11 Furniture, Apple, branding, CTV, Ikea, knock-off, Long Island University, Mr Panos Mourdoukoutas, Nike, Starbucks
Comments Off on Long Island Professor: “Chinese Counterfeiters Cannot Replicate Services” Yes, They Can
One Out of Three Seeds in China Infringes Patents
Do you want patented rice with that? Zhou Siyou writes for the China Daily: “An estimated 8,700 seed companies are operating in the Chinese market, but fewer than 100 have their own intellectual property rights. More than 90 percent of … Continue reading
Tagged China Daily, life science, Monsanto, Pioneer, seeds
Comments Off on One Out of Three Seeds in China Infringes Patents
Parlor Game: Identify the Knock-off Handbag, Watch and Gadget
TGIF: Vivian Giang of Business Insider has posted a quiz called: Can You Identify The Knockoff Handbags, Watches And Gadgets? Do the quiz here.
Tagged Business Insider, quiz, Vivian Giang
Comments Off on Parlor Game: Identify the Knock-off Handbag, Watch and Gadget
National Copyright Administration and Intellectual Property Office Held Second Video Conference
National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) and Britain’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) held their second video conference in 2011 as they had agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding. Wouldn’t it be interesting if the public could watch such a video … Continue reading
Tagged copyright, Intellectual Property Office, MOU, NCAC, Professor Ian Hargreaves, UK
Comments Off on National Copyright Administration and Intellectual Property Office Held Second Video Conference
CNTV (CCTV) Sues China Telecom For Copyright Infringement
Geng Wenxin of Global Times, a state owned news organisation, reports about CNTV (China Network Television) part of CCTV (China Central Television) suing two provincial branches of China Telecom for using its copyrighted content without permission. China Telecom at the … Continue reading
Tagged CCTV, China Telecom, copyright infringement, Guangdong, Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, Jiangsu, Nanjing Intermediate People's Court, television
Comments Off on CNTV (CCTV) Sues China Telecom For Copyright Infringement
Changzhou Global Animation Joyland Clones Offline Version Of Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft/Starcraft
The world’s first game themed entertainment park is Global Animation Joyland, in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. It cloned the American game producer Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft (WoW) into “Terrain of Magic” and Activision Blizzard’s StarCraft into “Universe of Starship” designs … Continue reading
Tagged Activision Blizzard, Changzhou, Global Animation Joyland, Jiangsu, Mr David Kappos, StarCraft, USPTO, World of Warcraft
Comments Off on Changzhou Global Animation Joyland Clones Offline Version Of Activision Blizzard’s World of Warcraft/Starcraft
Update on CYBERsitter, LLC v. The People’s Republic of China et al
Remember Green Dam Youth Escort? Short reminder: the Chinese government ordered computer manufacturers to bundle computers sold in China with software that could filter pornography by July 2009. It postponed the deadline because of pressure by foreign computer manufacturers. In … Continue reading
Tagged Acer, AsizBizBlog, Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy, CYBERsitter, Green Dam, Haier, Lenovo, People's Republic of China, Sony, Toshiba, Zhengzhou Jinhui Computer System Engineering
Comments Off on Update on CYBERsitter, LLC v. The People’s Republic of China et al
Technology Transfer to China: Judgment Day Is Coming For US and European Car Industry
“Last Judgment“as envisioned by Stefan Lochner in the car free year of 1435 The European and American automotive industry should wake up. Reuters quoted Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat SpA saying: “The excuse that we did not understand … Continue reading
Tagged automotive industry, Chrysler, Edward Jung, Fiat, Intellectual Ventures, Mr Nathan Myhrvold, Mr Sergio Marchionne, technology transfer
Comments Off on Technology Transfer to China: Judgment Day Is Coming For US and European Car Industry
Baby Tricycle Wars: Chinese Babygood Group Victorious Against US Mattel
In a China Daily article by Zhang Zhao, Babygood Group is complaining about the difficulties Chinese companies face when they try to enforce their intellectual property rights in the United States. Wei Yaochang, manager of Goodbaby’s legal office was quoted … Continue reading
Tagged Babygood Group, Beijing High People's Court, Mattel, Nanjing, patent infringement, tricycle, United States
Comments Off on Baby Tricycle Wars: Chinese Babygood Group Victorious Against US Mattel
Genuine Apple Store Fixes Problem Of Fake Apple
M.I.C. (Made in China) Gadget’s Chris Chang wrote that a genuine Apple Store in Pudong Shanghai helped diagnose and troubleshoot his knock-off MacBook Air. Read here. Now that he is sitting in your nest,you might as well treat him as … Continue reading
Tagged Apple, fake, knock-off, MacBook Air, MIC Gadget, Pudong, Shanghai
Comments Off on Genuine Apple Store Fixes Problem Of Fake Apple
Wrong Reasons, Right Conclusion: Why China Imitates Western Brands
Global branding, local marketingGenuine IKEA in Hong Kong offers “lucky bamboo”Photo: Danny Friedmann Panos Mourdoukoutas, professor of economics at Long Island University, gives four reasons why China imitates Western brands. See his Forbes article here. Since I do not agree with all … Continue reading
Tagged communism, Forbes, intellectual property in China, Mr Panos Mourdoukoutas
Comments Off on Wrong Reasons, Right Conclusion: Why China Imitates Western Brands
Cyber attacks: “Biggest Transfer of IP in History” Points To China
After eating a rat, one should stay vigilant.Photo: Tan Fugui Computer security company McAfee discovered that during a 5 year time span 72 organisation were infiltrated via the internet. Jim Finkle reports for Reuters about what Dmitri Alperovitch, McAfee Lab’s vice president … Continue reading
Tagged Center for Strategic and International Studies, cyber espionage, cyber McAfee, Hong Kong, Mr Dmitri Alperovitch, Mr James A. Lewis, Mr Jim Finkle, Operation Shady RAT, Singapore, Taiwan, trade secret
Comments Off on Cyber attacks: “Biggest Transfer of IP in History” Points To China
Exposed Fake Kunming Popular News Story Debunked
Now that Kunming officially is the fake capital of China, IP Dragon sent a stringer there and in the name of genuineness and gonzo journalism we break the following shocking news. The reputable China Hearsay, got a tip from an … Continue reading
Tagged China Hearsay, fake, Kunming
Comments Off on Exposed Fake Kunming Popular News Story Debunked
IKEA Drama: Second Tier Cities Cannot Wait For Well Known Brands: Enter The Copycat
When I visited friends in several countries, including China and the special administrative region of Hong Kong, I was overtaken by a sense of déjà vu. Their chairs, tables, book shelves, all breathed a sense of Swedish familiarity. Their interiors … Continue reading
Is China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Used To Get Hold Of Foreign IP?
Anti-Monopoly Law to level the playing field …or annexing the players?Photo: Danny Friedmann Today, exactly three years ago (2008), China’s Anti-monopoly Law went into effect. Since that time the Ministry of Commerce’s Anti-Monopoly Bureau has approved seven M&As conditionally of which … Continue reading
Tagged anti-monopoly law, China Intellectual Property, medicines, Pfizer, swine flue, Wyeth
Comments Off on Is China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Used To Get Hold Of Foreign IP?
Undecent Miffy Bunnies Spotted In Macau
Warning: This article contains material which may offend and may not be distributed, circulated, sold, hired, given, lent, shown, played or projected to a person under the age of 18 years. Let me first refresh your memory about IP relevant … Continue reading
Tagged Commercial Code of Macau, copyright infringement, dilution, HelloKitty, Macau, Miffy, Mr Dick Bruna, Sanrio, tarnishment, trademark infringement
Comments Off on Undecent Miffy Bunnies Spotted In Macau
Sobering Statistics Put China’s Innovation Into Perspective
In the graphical perspective,things become smaller if the distancefrom the observer increases Professor Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang, writers of the book ‘Getting China and India right‘, put China’s innovation statistics into perspective. Patent filings in 2008 U.S.A. 400,769 filings … Continue reading
Tagged EPO, IAM Magazine, India, innovation, Joff Wild, JPO, Mr Haiyan Wang, OECD, patents, Professor Anil Gupta, research and development, triadic patents, USPTO
Comments Off on Sobering Statistics Put China’s Innovation Into Perspective
Glass Is Half Full In Regard To IPR Infringements In China, … Is It Really?
According to Reuters Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei either showed his sense for the rather British form of humour the understatement or he is a die-hard optimist. In the very same year when 85 percent of all counterfeit goods seized … Continue reading
Tagged IP infringements, MOFCOM, Mr Jiang Zengwei, Reuters
Comments Off on Glass Is Half Full In Regard To IPR Infringements In China, … Is It Really?
If Central Government Is Not Omnipotent Deal Directly With Provinces: USPTO Jiangsu MOU
As the last article underlines, see here, the central government of Beijing is not all powerful in China. So it makes a lot of sense that the US Patent and Trademark Office went to Jiangsu, the important coastal province to … Continue reading
Tagged cooperation, Jiangsu, MOU, Mr David Kappos, USPTO, 江苏
Comments Off on If Central Government Is Not Omnipotent Deal Directly With Provinces: USPTO Jiangsu MOU
The Bad euh … Good euh … Bad News On Indigenous Innovation in China
“The Mountains Are High, but you can always find a way through“Yangsho, Guangxi ProvincePhoto: Danny Friedmann Since China announced its Indigenous Innovation policy in 2006 there were a lot of protests from foreign intellectual property rights holders that would be completely … Continue reading
Tagged decentralisation, indigenous innovation, Professor Stanley Lubman, University of California Berkeley
Comments Off on The Bad euh … Good euh … Bad News On Indigenous Innovation in China
Press Conference: DaVinci Furniture GM’s Nose Grows Longer Than Pinocchio’s
Honest Pinnocchio by Mike He, a Chinese designer“It is your pencil that makes him lie” Source: Yatzer One night, the wood carver Geppetto general manager DaVinci furniture Panzhuang Xiahua had a dream. He She dreamed that the marionette would come to life company would … Continue reading
Tagged China Hearsay, DaVinci, furniture, Made In China, Mike He, Pinocchio, Shanghaiist, Stan Abrams
Comments Off on Press Conference: DaVinci Furniture GM’s Nose Grows Longer Than Pinocchio’s
Fangchenggang Fairytale: How a Magic Mercedes-Benz Became A Humble Honda
Adam Smith dedicated his World Trademark Review blog about a Mercedes-Benz police car with a Honda logo. The local Fangchenggang police force (in Guanxi province) thought that they could fool taxpayers into believing that they did not spent too much … Continue reading
Tagged corruption, Fangchenggang, Guanxi, Honda, Mercedies-Benz, moral rights, PSB, Trademark Law
Comments Off on Fangchenggang Fairytale: How a Magic Mercedes-Benz Became A Humble Honda
The Apple Does Not Fall Far From The Tree In Kunming
BirdAbroad is a blogger in Kunming, Yunnan province. She came across a very convincing Apple Store ripoff, and then found two other such stores. Read here investigative post in which she said she was from the Apple corp. in the … Continue reading
Tagged Apple, Apple Store, BirdAbroad, Kunming, Yunnan
Comments Off on The Apple Does Not Fall Far From The Tree In Kunming
Innovation: “Paradoxes, Google and China”
Google and China have found each other in a marriage of convenience, in order to serve the one god they both live by: innovation. This article deals with censorship and intellectual property. Two of the biggest challenges that the internet … Continue reading
Tagged censorship, Google, Google and the Law, innovation, intellectual property in China
Comments Off on Innovation: “Paradoxes, Google and China”
When You Give This Horse Wings It’s Still Brand Dilution
It’s a car …, it’s a plane …Picture: Danny Friedmann … it’s a piano. Times Square, Causeway Bay, Hong KongPicture: Danny Friedmann The Pegasus Guoqin costs more than 2.86 million Renminbi (over US $410,000). Although it is painted in the “Ferrari rosso” … Continue reading
Tagged dilution, Ferrari, Hong Kong, Pegasus Guoqin, Schimmel, Trademarks Ordinance 2003, well-known trademark
Comments Off on When You Give This Horse Wings It’s Still Brand Dilution
IP Dragon’s Book Review: Dragons At Your Door
Learn to innovate with Chinese characteristics Before writing The World Is Flat (see his presentation at NUS here) Thomas Friedman realised that his “intellectual software was out-of-date”. His framework of measuring what is important and what is not, needed an update. … Continue reading
Tagged Dragons at your Door, globalisation, IP Dragon's Book Review, IP Leakage, Mr Thomas Friedman, Professor Ming Zeng, Professor Peter Williamson, satisfice
Comments Off on IP Dragon’s Book Review: Dragons At Your Door