Tag Archives: South Korea

Happy Dragon Boat Festival! Unhappy Trademark Protection for Qu Yuan?

Free interpretation of zong zi (glutinous rice).Traditional zong zi has a triangular form.Photo Danny Friedmann Today is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Time for Duan Wu festival (端午节). On this day Chinese around the world … Continue reading

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China’s global patent docket

The People’s Daily reports that in 2010 China filed 6,552 invention patent applications at the USPTO, 2,049 at the European Patent Office, 1,001 at the Japan Patent Office and 496 at the Korean Intellectual Property Office. IP Komodo had some … Continue reading

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Bitter Taste Avoided: South Korean Zhenjiang Vinegar and Costa Rican Confucius Institute Trademarks Rejected

The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) is vigorously protecting the trademarks of well-known Chinese companies. In October 2010 there was an effort to register the trademark Zhenjiang Vinegar in South Korea. Zhenjiang 镇江 is a prefecture-level city located … Continue reading

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Mickey, Pokémon and Dooly Still Banned From Chinese Prime Time TV

September 30 to October 5, 2010, the second China International Animation Copyright Fair will be held in China’s animation capital Dongguan, Guangdong province. Read an article by Tan Jing for News Guangdong here. In 2010 foreign animations, such as Mickey … Continue reading

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Sino-Korean Dispute About Dragon Boat Festival

A bit late, but too interesting to let it pass unnoticed, here is the article by Dr. Zhang Quanyi about South Korea and China who both applied at the UNESCO to put the same dragon boat festival on the list … Continue reading

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US Customs Seizure Statistics 2008: “China number one, India number two and Hong Kong number three counterfeit producer”

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and U.S. Customs Enforcement divisions of Homeland Security gives some statistics about the numbers, characteristics and origins of counterfeit goods seized in the U.S. in 2008.IPR seizures of goods from China rose … Continue reading

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LG Electronics Brings Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Thomson TCL

Korea Newswire reports about LG Electronics who presented a lawsuit against Thomson TCL Electronics (TTE), the French-Chinese TV maker, and its Hong Kong based holding company TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings for the infringement of four of its patents. LG Electronics … Continue reading

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It’s a Samsung, no it’s a Sammeng, no a Samesong …

Chinese counterfeit products piggyback on brand value of Korean companies such as Samsung. The Korea International Trade Associaton (KITA) estimates Chinese fake goods cost Korean export around US$14.2 billion (W1.3 trillion), equivalent to 5 percent of total exports. Read the … Continue reading

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Made in China Popular in Korea

Counterfeit Chic has another interesting posting, this time about Korean artist Zinwoo Park’s piece of allegedly art called “Fake”. Read more about it on Counterfeit Chic here. Photo by Buddha Baby.

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