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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Happy World Intellectual Property Day 2009
IP Dragon wishes you a happy World Intellectual Property Day 2009. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has chosen a very relevant theme for this year’s World Intellectual Property Day: promoting green innovation. WIPO takes responsibility for the polution that … Continue reading
Tagged ResponsibleChina.com, WIPO, World Intellectual Property Day
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“China Will Reshape International Intellectual Property Policy”
I just read a great paper by Andrea Wechsler ‘Intellectual Property Law in the P.R. China: A powerful Economic Tool for Innovation and Development’, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Research Paper No. 09-02, November 12, … Continue reading
Tagged Andrea Wechsler, IP policy, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Competition and Tax Law, patent law, patent reform
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Is There Anything Original To A Geely GE? And What About Huatai?
At the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show the Chinese Geely GE gives its acte de présence. Richard S. Chang wrote: “By all accounts the limo is a shameless (if not slightly shorter in length) knock-off of the Rolls-Royce Phantom.“ Read Chang’s … Continue reading
Tagged automotive industry, Bentley, Geely, Huatei, knock-off, Rolls-Royce
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“A new dawn for the China health-care or… Grand theft IP?”
Guest article and picture by Mikołaj Rogowski Back in January, Chinese government announced another one of its subsidies. This time around public health-care is the target and a sum of $128 billion is the weapon. It is no secret that … Continue reading
Green Gold Rush: The Interview, The Movie
Laurent Gaberell told me that he made a video documentary called Green Gold Rush about bioprospecting (the exploration of biodiversity for commercially valuable genetic and bio-chemical resources) and indigenous peoples. See the video here. The InterviewIP Dragon: Is traditional knowledge … Continue reading
Tagged biodiversity, biopiracy, Green Gold Rush, indiginous people, intellectual property enforcement, Laurent Gaberell, traditional Chinese medicines, traditional knowledge, WIPO
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Consumers International Says UK Has Worse Copyright Regime Than China… Nonsense Says Sharkey
Thank goodness it is Friday. Consumers International did a survey on the intellectual property laws and enforcement practices of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, the UK and the US, see here. … Continue reading
Tagged Consumers International, Copyright Law, Feargal Sharkey, music, TGIF, UK Music, YouTube
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Music Copyright Fees for Television and Radio Announced
Picture: TV History JLM Pacific Epoch (China Business Headlines & Analysis from JL McGregor & Company) translated a report by West China City Daily quoting Chinese composer Xu Peidong that China’s National Publishing Administration plans to set up copyright fees … Continue reading
Tagged alternative business models copyright protection, JLM Pacific Epoch, National Publishing Administration, radio, television
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IP Dragon’s Worldwide Review of Seizures and Measures Against Counterfeit and Pirated Goods Originating from China
This article will be a work in progress, because everytime I will come across news about a country that seized counterfeit or pirated goods originating from China I will add the link, so that a worldwide overview will emerge. If … Continue reading
Zhongnanhai Cigarettes? White House Cigars? Kremlin Wodka?
Xin Dingding and Wang Huazhong report on an anti-tobacco non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Think Tank Research Center for Health Development, that submitted a petition on April 14, 2009 to the Beijing Trademark Office to stop the use of Zhongnanhai, the … Continue reading
Tagged brand, cigarettes, trademark in China, Zhongnanhai
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Do ACTA Member Countries Want to Confront China With A Fait Accompli?
Since April 9, when I blogged ‘China and ACTA: Why the problem is not made part of the solution‘, new information about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has leaked, see Wikileaks here. It makes you realise how transparent the founding … Continue reading
Tagged ACTA, Michael Geist, TRIPs, WIPO, WTO, WTO Dispute Settlement
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Silk Market Vendors of Counterfeit Goods Terrorise Law Firm
Remember the Silk Market Appeal Case/Landlord Case about which I blogged at the exact same date, but then in 2006? Read here. Well, a lot has happened in the mean time: The Beijing Silk Market (before known as Silk Street … Continue reading
Faustian Pact Anno 2009: Receive Counterfeit Products, Lose Your Soul
You might have seen the movie ‘The Devil Wears Prada‘. A more empirical title could be ‘The Devil Sells fake Prada’. Research conducted by Duke and MIT professor Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) found out that owning a counterfeit … Continue reading
Tagged counterfeit, Dan Ariely, Duke University, MIT
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Sweet US ITC Victory Over Sucralose Patents For Chinese Manufacturers
Complainants:Tate & Lyle Technology Limited of London, United Kingdom;Tate & Lyle Sucralose, Inc. of Decatur, IL. Versus Respondents: AIDP, Inc. of City of Industry, CA; Beijing Forbest Chemical Co., Ltd. of China; Beijing Forbest Trade Co., Ltd. of China; Forbest … Continue reading
Tagged patent infringement, Splenda, sucralose, Tate and Lyle, US ITC
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China and ACTA: Why Is The Problem Not Made Part Of The Solution?
Medio December 2008 IP Dragon wrote about the controversial genesis of the China-less Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by Japan and the US (joined by Australia, Canada, the European Union, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore and Switzerland) whose … Continue reading
Tagged ACTA, EU, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, People's Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, TRIPs, USA
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Center Stage for Background Music: Collective Society Victorious Against Supermarket
Mena Lo and Lilian Shi of Wilkinson & Grist China wrote a short article about a copyright infringement case the Music Copyright Society of China brought against Beijing MerryMart Chain Stores. The Beijing Haidian District People’s Court awarded only 500 … Continue reading
Giving Away Music For Free to Destroy Copyright Piracy: Operation Success, Patient Dead?
Google is trying to get a bit closer to Baidu, the number one search engine in China. Therefore it is offering the users of google.cn free music downloads. It is legal, because all copyright holders have given permission. Murad Ahmed … Continue reading
IPR Enforcement in China via Inversed Trojan Horse: LVMH Invites China Investment Corporation to Take An Equity Stake
March 16, Tim LeeMaster wrote for the South China Morning Post, the English language newspaper of Hong Kong, that China Investment Corporation is considering to take an equity stake of 10 percent in the French luxury goods company LVMH. Head … Continue reading
Tagged China Investment Corporation, Louis Vuitton, LVMH
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How to Protect Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Recently I have been corresponding about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and which intellectual property rights (IPR) can protect them. I just read Mr or Ms Jia’s interesting paper on TCM (Jia Q., The World Health Organization, ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine Could … Continue reading
Tagged patent, sui generis, traditional Chinese medicines, traditional knowledge, WHO
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Guidelines of the Supreme People’s Court on Implementing the National IP Strategy
Last year China’s State Council promulgated the National IP Strategy (“National IP Strategy 2008: Feasible Commitments or Road to Nowhere Paved with Good Intentions” read here), a roadmap that must lead China to become one of the most innovative countries … Continue reading →