Monthly Archives: June 2007

Ohio Senator Says The Darndest Things About IP Enforcement And Introduced Section 522

“I think it’s extremely important to let the world know, that we have a group of people that gets up early in the morning and goes to bed late at night that are enforcing our intellectual property right laws.” Sounds … Continue reading

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Reaction to Shaun Rein: Consumers Not Always Fake It ‘Till They Can Make It

Shaun Rein of China Market Research Group wrote an interesting article ‘How to Win the China Piracy Battle’ for BusinessWeek, see here. Mr. Rein asserts: If a company wants to have success in China, in the face of counterfeit and … Continue reading

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Blogroll Update: China’s Accession to IP Treaties

IP Dragon’s blogroll is updated. See ‘Treaties (in force)’ on your right hand side. Now it includes all IP treaties of WIPO and WTO (and UN’s Vienna Treaty Convention crucial for the interpretation of treaties) which China has acceded to … Continue reading

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Geographical Indications Go China

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing have organised an international symposium on geographical indictions (GI), from June 26 to 28, 2007. What is … Continue reading

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Blogroll Update: Hong Kong’s IP Ordinances

IP Dragon has updated its blogroll by including relevant IP Law (or rather ordinances) of Hong Kong. See, on your right hand, under treaties.

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China’s Wish To Circumvent 3G Royalties Has Its Price

December 29, 2005 IP Dragon referred to China’s efforts to come up with their own version of 3G telephony to avoid paying royalties to foreign patent right holders, see here. According to the Economist of June 14th, China has committed … Continue reading

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Brandjacking Brand Value Down The Drain

Jeff Roberts of McGill’s CIPP’s “IP News This Week”, your 5-minute report of the latest IP news from around the world, pointed me again to an interesting article, this time about brandjacking in China. Read the article ‘Bleach, By Yves … Continue reading

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Reaction to Danwei Article About China’s Ratification of WIPO’s Internet Treaties

Ms. Maya Alexandri wrote an interesting article called ‘Copyright protection for online content’ for Danwei. Referring to China’s accession and ratification (June 9, 2007) of WIPO’s Copyright Treaty (WCT) and WIPO’s Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) a report by the … Continue reading

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3 of Baker McKenzie’s Cases Elected By Supreme People’s Court As 2006 Top 10 IPR Cases

Three of the ‘ Top ten cases’ in 2006 elected by the Supreme People’s Court concerns cases won by Baker & McKenzie: Sony Corporation versus Guangzhou Top Power Electronics Co., Ltd.; Starbucks versus Shanghai Xinbake Coffee Shop Ltd; Prada, Chanel, … Continue reading

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Supreme People’s Court Awards Yamaha Highest Damages in Piracy Case

雅马哈 Shu-Ching Jean Chen wrote for Forbes the article ‘Yamaha Copycat Crashes in Court’. “The Chinese company, Zhejiang Huatian, registered a shell company in Japan’s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under the same three characters used by Yamaha to render … Continue reading

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Play Fair 2008: “Genuine Olympic Goods Made By Children”

The moral implication of buying counterfeited or pirated goods is not only that they infringe the IPRs of the owners, but that it might be manufactured by children, in bad working conditions, pollute the environment etc. There is a total … Continue reading

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Moutai Brews Up 3+2+1 Anti-Counterfeit Technology

China Corporate Social Responsiblity (China CSR) reports that Kweichow Moutai, the brewery of China’s national Moutai liquor, will formally initiate its anti-counterfeit system on July 1. “Kweichow Moutai’s anti-counterfeit ebonite (IP Dragon: a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural … Continue reading

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Imported Fish Coming From Everywhere But Norway Labeled Norwegian Fish in China

Norway, has a problem exporting fish to China. Not because this Nordic country nosedived in the Environmental Performance Index 2006 from the second best ranking in the world in 2005 to 18th position, because of severe overfishing. And not because … Continue reading

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Whisky On the Rise in China, So is Counterfeit Whisky

Whisky is becoming more popular in China for who can afford it. In 2006, China became a world top 10 whisky drinking nation, when total sales hit 58.2 million pounds (115 million dollars), an increase of 27 percent over 2005, … Continue reading

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Warning:Drunkeness Or IP Infringement Can Cause Severe Spelling Problems

Grupo Modelo, the Mexican brewer of Corona beer probably sobered up when it discovered 24 million bottles of Chinese Cerono beer. Jeremy Phillips of IP Kat reports the story here.

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Patent Examiner SIPO Blogs

I got an email from Cliff Zhao, Patent Examiner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)who is also a translator. Mr Zhao set up a Chinese/English blog called Intellectual Property in China 知识产权与中国发展 about intellectual property policy in China. Recently … Continue reading

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How To Measure IP Enforcement: Enforcement/Infringement Ratio and “Data Data and Data”

One of the recommendations of my upcoming thesis called: ‘Paper Tiger or Roaring Dragon? China’s TRIPs Implementations and Enforcement‘ is the need to increase transparency about IP enforcement (and of course it is the raison d’être of IP Dragon). To … Continue reading

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8th Annual IEEM IP Seminar in Macau

Professor Anselm Kamperman Sanders of the Maastricht University, the Netherlands, informed me about The International Intellectual Property Law and Pharmaceuticals conference organised by Dr. Christopher Heath, Member of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO) and himself. … Continue reading

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Customs Auction Notice To Prevent Infringing Goods Reentering Channels of Commerce

Just before the US made two formal complaints against China at the WTO on April 10, 2007 (the WTO cases are: China – Measures affecting the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights, Request for Consultations by the United States, … Continue reading

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Inside the Dragon’s Den: Observations from a Counterfeit Watch Factory

Shenzhen based journalist and blogger (Shenzhen Zen) Justin Mitchell embedded himself for online publication Asia Sentinel inside a counterfeit watch factory in Shenzhen that sells them under brands such as Rolex, Seiko, Omega, Fossil and Tag Heuer, BMW, Bacardi, Dunhill, … Continue reading

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Suspected Ringleader of Counterfeit Computer Network Equipment Finally Caught

In September a succesful joint operation was carried out by the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau and private security firm I-OnAsia. US$ 25 million worth of counterfeit computer network equipment (sold under international brands such as Nortel, Cisco Systems and Hewlett … Continue reading

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