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Tag Archives: China
China’s Position as Champion of Traditional Knowledge in International Law Fora
Traditional Knowledge (TK), Genetical Resources (GR), Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCE), are sometimes seen as spare change between the countries with a high and those of a low GDP per capita (the terminology of developed and developing countries is flawed as … Continue reading
Tagged China, Genetical Resources, Peace Palace Library, Professor Rostam Neuwirth, traditional Chinese medicine, Traditional Cultural Expressions, traditional knowledge, TRIPs Council, WIPO
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Things to do in the Summer, CHECK: WTI/CUHK Summer Programme on Intellectual Property in HK
IP Dragon spent his holiday participating in the WTI/CUHK Summer Programme on intellectual property, indeed co-organised by the World Trade Institute in Bern and Chinese University of Hong Kong, from July 9 -20. The coming days I would like … Continue reading
Tagged Arno Hold, Bangladesh, China, CUHK, Elliot Papageorgiou, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mathias Schaeli, Philip Monaghan, professor Bryan Mercurio, Professor Michael Pendleton, professor Peter K. Yu, Professor Thomas Cottier, Ron Marchant, South Africa, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, World Trade Institute
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China’s Influence On Non-Trade Concerns In International Economic Law
Maastricht University, Faculty of Law Professor Paolo Farah organised with a grant from China-EU School of Law (CESL) in Beijing three conferences on China and Non-trade Issues. The first was held at the University of Turin (November 23-24, 2011), the … Continue reading
Tagged Anselm Kamperman Sanders, China, Denise Provost, intellectual property in China, Lukasz Gruszczynski, Maastricht University, Paolo Farah, Rogier Creemers, WTO
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Golden Combination: Chow Tai Fook and Disney
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes,” said Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh: “All this gold makes me crave for … honey.“Exhibition at … Continue reading
Tagged China, Chow Tai Fook, Disney, dual branding, Hang Seng Index, Hong Kong, jewelry, licensing, Macau
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Bizarre Chinese Brand Approved By Pro-Life and Pro-Choice
Sometimes it is better to avoid literal translations. This might be an example: 金 jīn 胚 pēi 玉 yù 米 mǐ 油 yóu = gold embryo corn oil. The association with embryos, even if they are golden, and corn oil, is probably not the most conducive to whet … Continue reading
Tagged brand, China, Gold Embryo Corn Oil, trademark, 金胚玉米油
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Taiwan Shining Intellectual Property Blueprint For China Or Wishful Thinking?
What works for Taiwan, does (not)necessarily works for China,and vice versa. During the press conference for the “Piracy Out, Competitiveness Up” campaign in Taipei (Taiwan) the chief secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Hung Shu-min said that Taiwan could be … Continue reading
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
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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
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Parasitizing Trademarks of Drugs in China Breeds Resistant Malaria Parasite
World Health Organisation (WHO) officials say that counterfeit drugs and poor storage are endangering the health of millions of people in Asia. Ron Corben wrote for Voice Of Amercia the article WTO Fears Growing Malaria Drug Resistance May Be Spreading … Continue reading
Tagged Burma, Cambodia, China, counterfeit drugs, Jill McGivering, malaria, parasitizing, Ron Corben, Simeon Bennett, Thailand, Voice of America, WHO
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Incremental Pharmaceutical Inventions in China and India: “No Need to Reinvent the Wheel”
For those who missed it, in 2008, the Intellectual Property Association of Japan (IPAJ) published an interesting article by Parama Sinha Palit and Bhaskar Bhattacharya called ‘Does Intellectual Property Laws in India and China Encourage Innovation’. Messrs Palit and Bhattacharya, … Continue reading
Tagged China, India, patent quality, pharmaceutical industry, utility model patent
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Article 6ter Paris Convention Online: Hong Kong (2), China (0), Netherlands (37)
March 31, 2009, WIPO’s first electronic publication of signs, emblems etc. protected under article 6ter Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, see here. On this day (July 13, 2009), if you type in China, you see only the … Continue reading
Tagged article 6ter Paris Convention, China, emblem, flag, Hong Kong, Paris Convention
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