Monthly Archives: December 2006

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Warns Against Counterfeit Circuit Breaks, Viagra and Shampoo

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) warned against several counterfeit products from China, Russia and Pakistan causing health and safety risks, reports Robers Fife for CTV. Some of the counterfeit products have high levels of the wrong ingredient: Viagra knock-offs … Continue reading

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FA Premier League Against Trademark Infringers 1:0

Sarah Butler reported for the Times Online about two rulings by the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court: The English FA (football association, nowadays called after their sponsor: Barclays) Premier League was victorious in a trademark dispute with Xiangshi Celebration … Continue reading

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Li Ka-shing: Bring IP Offenders to Justice Even At A Loss

The Edge Daily from Malaysia gives a summary of an interview Li Ka-shing, China’s richest man, gave to Forbes Asia. Li Ka-shing invites foreign pharmaceutical companies to partner up with him to integrate low production costs in China with the … Continue reading

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Anticipated Supreme People’s Court Decision in Counterfeit Case Between Montresor and Ferrero

David Eimar reports for The Independent about the much anticipated Supreme People’s Court ruling next month between Montresor’s Tresor Dore and Ferrero Rocher. Eimar points out a salient aspect of the case: “Tresor Dore, a popular Chinese brand of chocolates … Continue reading

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Reaction To Danwei’s Question About Republishing In China

Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn has an interesting article about whether it is legal to copy and paste entire news articles, read here. China’s copyright law should be in lign with the Berne Convention of which China is a signatory since July … Continue reading

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Counterfeiters Prevent Other Counterfeiters From Copying Them

Melinda Liu of Newsweek went to Yaxiu shopping mall in Beijing to get a first hand experience of the IPR infringement problem the new “strategic economic dialogue” between China and the United States, among other things such as the US … Continue reading

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Counterfeit Goods and Piracy Segment 2005 in Numbers: The Overview

Douglas (aka Dog McFly) sent me an email pointing out the site of Havoscope. This site shows China’s share in market value of counterfeit and piracy goods, here, based on the numbers of the Quality Brands Protection Committee and the … Continue reading

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Medicine For Protection of Traditional Knowledge Is Patience

Yan Liang of Xinhua Online wrote the article: Greater international co-operation called for traditional knowledge IP protection. It’s about the interregional seminar of the intergovernmental committee on Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural Expressions/Folklore (IGC), in Zhenghzou, organised by … Continue reading

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Last Emperor’s Brother Tried to Claim Personality Rights

88 year old Jin Youzhi tried to claim the personality rights based on article 10 Copyright Law of his brother Aisin Giorro Pu Yi, who was the last emperor of China, to no avail: “Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court, … Continue reading

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China Enterprise Copyright Alliance Launched

December 11, six Chinese companies: Shanda Entertainment, Netease, Sina, Microsoft China, Kingsoft and Sunchime Cartoon Group have established the China Enterprise Copyright Alliance. The plan was announced in September during the 2006 International Copyright Forum in Beijing, which was jointly … Continue reading

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China’s TRIPs Compliance Five Years Later: What’s The Score?

Today the USTR issued the 2006 Report to Congress On China’s WTO Compliance, including nine pages (70-79) about China’s intellectual property enforcement. Nothing really surprising, but it gives an overview of China’s compliance with TRIPs through the eyes of the … Continue reading

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Success EVD Format Dependent On Backing Chinese Copyright Pirates

William Moss wrote a good story about China’s answer to HD DVD or Blu-Ray formats: Extended Versatile Disk. “For HD-DVD and Blu-Ray to succeed, movie studios need to support them. But even if the government mandates EVD as the format … Continue reading

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Message of IP Dragon

Ever since IP Dragon upgraded from Blogger to Beta Blogger, there have been problems to incorporate Haloscan’s comment functionality. Until that time you can comment via Blogger comments: if you cannot read Chinese click on the number on the right … Continue reading

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Can Copyright Save Chinese Folklore?

Deming Liu wrote an interesting 14 page essay about the idea to use copyright or a sui generis to salvage Chinese folklore. Liu explains that copyright traditionally is concerned with the creations of individuals rather the cumulative creations of an … Continue reading

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Final Judgement Hennessy Trademark Infringement: No More Sour Grapes in China

Remember the Hennessy trademark infringement case in 2005? See here. March 2005, Jas Hennessy & Co. instituted a proceeding against Zhuhai Xiangmutong Trading Co. Ltd. who sold the cognoc and Xiamen Jin (Golden) Huanya Food Co. Ltd. who bottled it, … Continue reading

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China Outspends Japan in Innovation; IP in China Will Profit

Stan Abrams, Lehman, Lee and Xu lawyer and writer of China Hearsay, wrote an article about China’s newest milestone: that it outspends Japan in research and development. It is expected IP protection and enforcement in China will profit most. Rightly … Continue reading

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“Davee Beekham Do It At Once”

Jeremy Goldkorn posted for Danwei an article of Michael Rank of Trade Marks Directory Service about pirate trademark applications of well-known brands in China. In Guangdong a businessman has applied for the trademark Nike in English and Chinese for toilet … Continue reading

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Is Plagiarism Justified?

Danwei publishes Tianya blogger Guerlangwa/Icegrass Bay about an article of his that was published in New Express, Sanqin Metropolis Daily and Heilongjiang’s Life Daily, without his authorisation. Read Guerlangwa’s article here.

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Counterfeit Spelling Contest How To Write ….

Philips. China is warming up relations with the African continent. One side effect is the growth in Chinese counterfeit products. Oskar Himmelreich made a nice picture in Kumasi, Ghana, August 2006 of a counterfeit mixer of the Dutch multinational with … Continue reading

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