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China Wants Legally-Binding Climate Agreement, But Has Many Demands

The degradation of the environment is China’s biggest challenge. Remember March of this year (2011), when the Chinese government released its 12th Five-Year Plan it emphasised sustainable economic growth and came up with policy objectives and quantitative targets that foster … Continue reading

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Reaction to Professor Navarro’s China Bashing: We Get What We Paid For

Due to the melamine scare many Chinese parents buy milk powder in foreign supermarkets; such as Walmart, or in Hong KongPhoto Danny Friedmann July last year I posted a blog about professor Peter Navarro who questioned whether profit making is the … Continue reading

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Fast Technology Transfer/IPR Infringements Slows Down China’s High Speed Train

Photo: Danny FriedmannHigh-speed train just got slower. Getting a ticket even more so. Infringed intellectual property rights can have negative influences on society. During the manufacturing process of these goods labour and environmental minimum standards, already challenged in China, can … Continue reading

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Patent Disputes Between China-South Korea-India versus the US Jeopardises Cleaner Coal Technology

Kathleen Kilanowski, an attorney focusing on IP among other things, for Dallas and New York based Scott & Scott, a law and technology services firm, wrote about international patent disputes that halt progress in FutureGen’s coal power plant technology. FutureGen … Continue reading

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In Order To Clean Up China’s Environment Intellectual Property Rights Need To Be Protected

July 10, IP Dragon wrote that the IP protection in China is a big challenge, but peanuts compared to China’s environmental challenge and elaborated on the parallels between solving IP and the environmental problems, read more here. Mr Matt Perkins … Continue reading

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IP Protection in China Challenge Peanuts Compared to China’s Environmental Challenge, Though Parallels Abound

I got an email from Erica Schlaikjer of Responsible China, which “focuses on environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility in Greater China.” A great site. Now what has IP protection to do with the environment? I wrote it before and … Continue reading

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