Monthly Archives: July 2008

“Great Wall Motor Not Infringing Fiat’s Patent”

Reuters reports that Great Wall Motor Co Ltd made a statement saying that Fiat’s claim that Great Wall infringing their patent was dismissed by Shijiazhuang Intermediate People’s Court. Read the Reuters article here and the Great Wall Motor’s statement here. … Continue reading

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First Bar Ordered To Pay Damages For Copyright Infringements of Karaoke Songs

In April the People’s Court in the Chancheng district of Guangdong Province’s Foshan city ordered Haoledi Entertainment Company, the karaoke bar management firm, to pay damanges of 30,000 yuan (4,286 U.S. dollars) by Beijing-based New Run Entertainment Company, a performance … Continue reading

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Face Saving Cultures Don’t Like to Make An Apology

Mr Piter de Weerd, editor of Boek9.nl (Dutch) Book9.nl (English), the excellent blog about intellectual property rights in the Netherlands, pointed me to the article ofSeattle Trademark Lawyer Mr Michael Atkins, who was startled about the remedies Japan’s cosmetic giant … Continue reading

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Facebook Cloned in China

British blogger ‘I love China’ has a great blog ‘Xiao Nei – Now available in English’, read here.

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Discover Your Invention in China Or Lose Protection

Ms Patti Waldmeir has another interesting article about the upcoming patent law in China. She rightly zoomed in on the controversial articles. In February I posted a blog about the articles 49, 50 and 74 of China’s third amended patent … Continue reading

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Patent Quality in China: “You could patent a wheel”

Ms Patti Waldmeir wrote a great article for the Financial Times about Chinese patents ‘The value of branding becomes patent’, read here. On the positive side Ms Waldmeir noticed that China is the country where most companies are filing for … Continue reading

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Freshfields appoints Mark Parsons as IP counsel

Connie Carnabuci’s Hong Kong Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer IP team has been strengthened by appointing Mark Parsons as counsel. See Freshfields’ media release here.

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Adidas Execs Don’t Acknowledge Chinese Counterfeit Problem

Ms Mei Fong wrote an interesting article in the WSJ about Adidas’ efforts to become the number one in China by locating their biggest store there. Interestingly Ms Fong noticed the following: “Locating its biggest store in the world’s biggest … Continue reading

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Future of Digital Copyright Protection in Hong Kong

Tomorrow Professor Peter Yu (I was honoured that this prolific professor was my co-advisor when I was writing my thesis) and mr Charles Mok will give a lecture on the future of digital copyright protection in HK, at the University … Continue reading

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