Monthly Archives: September 2006

Ray Parry, editor-in-chief of counterfeit.com, wrote an interesting article: The Great Gall of China? Counterfeit.com is according to the site an online voice for the anti-counterfeiting industry. Parry proposes the following as a proactive, deterrent-type, IP protection programme specifically addressing … Continue reading →

This week the “usual suspects” are Counterfeit Chic and China Law Blog. Their postings about intellectual property in China were concentrated on Tuesday. Monday, September 25Tuesday, September 26Counterfeit Chic’ Knockoff News 33 supplied a mer à boire for IPR in … Continue reading →

Emma Moore, an expat from New Zealand living in China, wrote an interesting article called The Chinese Rip Off for Scoop. She is discussing the 100 Day Campaign Against Piracy that started July 15, 2006: “This week, government officials announced … Continue reading →

The World Economic Forum launced its Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007. As country highlights the following text is given in case of China: “China’s ranking has fallen from 48 to 54, characterized by a heterogeneous performance. On the positive side, China’s … Continue reading →

Jonathan Hopfner reports for the Electronic Engineering Times about what Philip Koh, a Singapore-based research vice president with analyst firm Gartner, forcasted a week ago about the semiconductor industry. “China will account for 60 percent of the $118 billion Asian … Continue reading →

The US Patent and Trademark Office is inviting you to Boston, Massachusetts for a two day conference (September 27-28, 2006) about protecting IPR in China and the globabal marketplace. See here. Head tip to Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates. If … Continue reading →

Within the next two to three months Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is planning to open an office in Beijing, according to Amanda Bronstad in the China Trade Law Report, who interviewed the firm’s chairman, R. Bruce McLean, … Continue reading →

China Confucius Foundation has commissioned a statute in Qufu, the birth place of the great sage. To standardise the image of Confucius the world over, the statute will be used as the official copyrighted image.Read the Xinhua article here and … Continue reading →

The Digital Chosun Ilbo reports some staggering statistics of counterfeit goods entering South Korea. The writer of this article, who remains unknown, uses a splendid euphemism for trademark infringement: sincere flattery. According to the Chosun Ilbo, the Korea Customs Service … Continue reading →

Managing IP has made a ranking of the law firms and patent and trademark agencies in Asia, Europe and the US, based on the number of IP practitioners. The biggest lawfirm of Asia is not a Chinese lawfirm, as one … Continue reading →

Monday, September 18 IP Dragon posted in June Debunking the Chinese Tourist in Europe Story. But now Susan Scafidi of Counterfeit Chic posted a Flickr picture in her Knockoff News 32 that seems to at least partly debunk the debunking … Continue reading →

Monday, September 11 Tuesday, September 12 Richard Kuslan of Asia Business Intelligence is talking about main stream book stores and that one cannot expect rapid and radical change in intellectual property rights consciousness. His posting is entitled Pirated Editions and … Continue reading →

Monday, September 4 Tuesday, September 5 Wednesday, September 6 China Law Blog refers in the article Is A Cigar In China Really Just a Cigar? to a number of blog postings about the business/finance perspective on IPR. Thursday, September 7 … Continue reading →

Mice Love Rice Copyright Dispute Solved Yang Chengang, the composer of the song Mice Love Rice, must have thought that companies and singers are like mice and the assignment of the copyright of his song like rice. But instead of … Continue reading →

Wen Jiabao visited Helsinki, Finland for the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM). The full transcript of an interview with the Chinese premier was covered by The Times and published by The Australian. One question (question 4) was about IPR: What steps … Continue reading →

African News Dimension wrote an article entitled: “China blamed for killing Nigerian economy”. The Nigerian commerce minister Aliyu Modibo displayed the original Nigerian Wax materials and faked Chinese samples presented to him by the leadership of the Association of Textile … Continue reading →

Aaron Tan questioned whether China and other Asian countries warm up to intellectual property in an article for Silicon.com. During the Global Forum on IP in Singapore the panel drew the conclusion that IPR are valued by Asian companies, albeit … Continue reading →

Anna-Lucille Montgomery is a doctoral candidate and researcher at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia’s Creative Industries Research and Applications Center. She is writing Copyright, Creativity and Economic Development – Intellectual Property and the Creative Industries in Post-WTO China. Now … Continue reading →

The spirit of Bruce Lee is alive and kicking. After Bruce Lee’s untimely death, on July 20, 1973, there were no statutes erected in Hong Kong (there was only a Bruce Lee Café, run by Jon Ben, which had the … Continue reading →

Garry Wiseman project leader of Window Live Expo, a free classified service provided by Microsoft, blogged that Sino.com has unauthorisedly copied parts of its old lay-out. However, recently Wiseman has withdrawn the posting, see here why. According to Big Mouth … Continue reading →

IP Dragon is honoured and humbled that it is nominated for best Asia Business/Economics Blog Q1 2006/2007 by the Asia Blog Awards. IP Dragon is a happily surprised, because it is focused on China, rather Asia, and although it has … Continue reading →

A Knowledge Expert Says (And A Journalist Quotes) The Darndest Things Waltraut Ritter, director of Knowledge Enterprises, spoke Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa Schusterman Center as part of the university’s Renaissance Project, an initiative to encourage discussion of modern … Continue reading →

Friday, August 25 Saterday, August 26Internet, that sea of info gives and takes. To my regret Asia Business Law is no more. However Christopher Cassidy and Travis Hodgkins are continuing somewhere else, and Christopher Pitts and Jason Lohr might return, … Continue reading →