Monthly Archives: May 2012

Trend Thirsty Thursday: Made Better in China

What would you do if you knew the future? Wouldn’t you made decisions that anticipate on that future to be fully prepared? The alchemists over at trendwatching.com have made it their business to extrapolate contemporary facts (as valuable as lead) … Continue reading

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Manchurian Candidate of Chips: Backdoor or IP Challenge?

Instead of brainwashing and grooming a person to become a political leader in a rival country, like in The Manchurian Candidate, a 1959 political thriller by Richard Condon, it is probably easier to try to sell the rival country computer … Continue reading

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IP Dragon wants YOUR opinion

  IP Dragon is very excited to announce that it is moving toward a more professional format. To be better informed about your professional needs, we would like you to answer the following 9 short questions.   Help us to … Continue reading

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This Is How An Australian Company Undercut A Chinese Counterfeiter on Price in Africa

I have written a few times jestingly that companies should be happy when their intellectual property rights are infringed by Chinese companies. Because, if they don’t one cannot easily sue them any longer but one has to compete with them … Continue reading

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One of the Top 10 IPR Cases in Jiangsu 2011: Counterfeit Luxury Brands Seized

    Jiangsu was China’s province with the highest GNP per capita in 2011:  61,649 Yuan. This means that a greater group of people might have become interested in luxury goods, such as cosmetics and jewelry.  One of the top … Continue reading

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Without Real Innovation What Is There To Protect? National Intellectual Property Strategy 2012

China wants to move away from imitation to innovation country. Therefore China’s State Intellectual Property Organization (SIPO) issued the Promotion Plan for the Implementation of the National Intellectual Property Strategy in 2012.  Before I give an analysis of this laudable plan … Continue reading

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Impersonator Does Not Fake a Documentary on Trademark Counterfeits

Owen Schumacher is a gifted Dutch comedian and impersonator. He has made a documentary series about what people’s perceptions are of real and fake. The third episode of the documentary is on brands, genuine and fake. Mr Schumacher, like yours … Continue reading

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Why Go Undercover If You Can See Counterfeits in the Bright Light of Guangdong

“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants”, as judge Louis D. Brandeis (Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1916-1939) is quoted. But what if some of the government officials in society wear sunglasses?     Last year around … Continue reading

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Most Feared by Multinational Companies in China: IP Infringers WITHIN the Organization

Phil Muncaster of The Register interviewed via email Verizon manager Ian Christofis after the 13th annual Info-Security Conference in Hong Kong.     ““In my experience, a number of foreign companies – for example US-based or Taiwan-based firms – that are manufacturing … Continue reading

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Ownership and the Right to Upload versus the Obligation to Remove

    Hong Kong’s Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA) estimated to have lost 308 million U.S. dollar, because of copyright piracy on YouTube. Read Karen Chu’s Hollywood Reporter article here.  MPIA is referring that the Hamburger Landgericht’s decision in GEMA … Continue reading

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How To Create A Chinese Alptraum Out of an Austrian Dream Village

Picture a pristine village at a crystal clear lake in the Austrian Alps. Now get rid of the snowy mountains and replace them with yellow hills.  Then strip the lake and substitute it with a muddy pool.  Add some polluted … Continue reading

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Trademark Dilution/Delusion in HK: Greyhound Café is free-riding on Greyhound Lines’ Reputation

  Can the Gaia Group who brought a restaurant chain first in Thailand (in 1997, as a line extension of its fashion label which it started in 1980 with men’s casual wear at Siam Center, followed by an expansion into … Continue reading

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Majority of Online Copyright Infringers Encourage Chinese Government to Step up Protection

On May 3, 2012, the China Youth Daily did a survey under 17,576 respondents about their conduct and perception in regard to copyright protection.     Results survey:      92.7 percent of respondents admitted they had bought or used pirated … Continue reading

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Four Taiwanese Publishers Want Government to Ban Access to Foreign Piracy Sites

Four Taiwanese publishing companies have urged the government to change the Copyright Act and Telecommunications Act, so that there will be a possibility to ban access to foreign sites that provide pirated content.

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China Dominates Priority Watch List 2012

April 2012, the Office of the United States trade Representative published its 2012 Special 301  Report. To really nobody’s surprise China is again on the Priority Watch List, together with Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Chile, India, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine and … Continue reading

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Bear and Dragon Try the Water for Fast Patent Examination Stream

After the U.S.A (USPTO)., Germany (DPMA), Korean (KIPO) and Japan (JPO), Russia might become the fifth country to have a patent prosecution highway with China.   State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)’s commissioner Tian Lipu signed a Memorandum of Understanding with … Continue reading

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