Monthly Archives: March 2007

IPR infringements: Glass Is Half Full or Half Empty?

Same facts about statements made at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Innovation , diametric contradictory titles. Kirby Chien’s article for Taiwan’s The China Post: ‘US says China piracy getting worse’.Read more here. Jiang Wei and Diao … Continue reading

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Media As the Battleground in Case of IPR Infringement

Alistair J. Nicholas, managing director of AC Capital Strategic Public Relations, a China-based corporate communications and public affairs consultancy with offices in Beijing and Shanghai, wrote an article for Business Week. The author has directed the communications strategies of various … Continue reading

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Pledging of Intellectual Property Rights in the Property Rights Law

March 16, the National People’s Congress promulgated the controversial Property Rights Law that will be effective October 1, 2007. Does this law mention intellectual property law at all? Yes, it does: Article 223 Property Rights Law: The following rights that … Continue reading

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INSEAD’s Attributes Hijacked By SEIMI

Michael Backman asks in his article for the Australian newspaper The Age the question who is liable for damage of a product of which it is unknown whether it is counterfeited or not. This could be increasingly the case, Backman … Continue reading

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China’s New National Strategy On IPR Protection Will Come Out First Half 2007

Luan Shanglin of Xinhua reports: “China’s national strategy on IPR protection will come out in the first half of this year. It is composed of 20 topics and one guideline, covering system building, law enforcement, talents training and public awareness … Continue reading

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Chintellectual Property Foundation: “Paving the European way for Chinese enterprises”

Dutch IP firm Vereenigde has set up the Chintellectual Property Foundation, a non-profit organisation that helps Chinese enterprises find their way around the European intellectual property system.The foundation is organising and hosting master classes both in China and Europe, primarily … Continue reading

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Alternative Business Models Emerge In Times of Pessimism About a Solution Against Copyright Piracy in China

That copyright piracy in China is a serious problem is confirmed by the article in China Daily. The General Administration of Press and Publication announced that 120 million audio and video products and 500 million unauthorized books a year were … Continue reading

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Guangdong Lux Soap Cleansed of Counterfeit Trademark in Guyana

Remember Guyana’s Court that granted an injunction against alleged counterfeit Lux soap from Guangdong? See here. Well the soap continues. “On February 6, Justice B S Roy, sitting in the Commercial Court had granted an injunction against the importer and … Continue reading

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SIPO Deputy Director Does Not Want to Discuss How To Enforce Patent Infringement

SIPO deputy director Zhang Qin was interviewed by Emma Barraclough of Managing Intellectual Property in Geneva. Zhang said: “[T]he counterfeiting and piracy of copyright and trade marks is illegal and should be punished. We have to be trustable. We want … Continue reading

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New Technology for Old Wines Against Counterfeit Bottles

“In China and Vietnam, you find more counterfeit than authentic bottles,” Serge Tchekhov said in a phone interview with Elin McCoy of Bloomberg. In order to fight counterfeit wines winemakers are considering to deploy new technologies such as RFID, now … Continue reading

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China Ranks 45th in International Property Rights Index (which includes IPR)

The 2007 International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is the first international comparative study that measures the significance of both physical and intellectual property rights and their protection for economic well-being. The correlation of the IPRI Rank and GDP per capita … Continue reading

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Guizhou Province Drafts Regulation to Protect Traditional Knowledge

Pliny Han of Xinhua reports: “Legislators in southwest China’s Guizhou Province are mulling a regulation aimed at protecting property rights for traditional knowledge, especially knowledge relating to biological resources, said sources with the provincial bureau of intellectual property right.” Read … Continue reading

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Alibaba Sued By Music Companies Over Yahoo! China’s Alleged Copyright Infringements

Li Xinran of the Shanghai Daily reports about Alibaba, operator of Yahoo China (in 2005 Alibaba bought Yahoo! China, then Yahoo! bought 40 percent of Alibaba) , who has been sued by eleven music companies, because Yahoo! China allegedly provided … Continue reading

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“Videos with ‘copyright challenging character’ most popular”

Netanel Jacobsson is a Swede living in Israel running Maxthon, a company that developes a browser in China (which reached 62 million dollars in one and a half year without marketing). Jacobsson’s last two blogs are about the Piper Jaffray’s … Continue reading

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Dance Copyright Infringemement Case: Thousand-hand Bodhisattva

September 30, 2006 Coldness Kwan wrote an article for the China Daily about a dance copyright infringement case. The dance is the Thousand-hand Bodhisattva dance, see it on YouTube here. “Mao Difang, 71-year-old retired dance director, filed a lawsuit suing … Continue reading

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Beijing No.2 Intermediate People’s Court’s Illuminating Ruling About Copyrightable Lamps

US based Fine Art Lamps filed a civil lawsuit with the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court against both the Zhongshan Great Beam Lighting and the Beijing Great Beam Lighting for infringement of its copyright in its catalogs and lamps in … Continue reading

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