International Law

Monday Meditations on IPR in China

Posted on November 22, 2010
Gouzou de la RéunionAuthor: Bouette?Counterfeiters and copyright pirates in China respect intellectual property. They merely wish the intellectual property to become their intellectual property that they may more perfectly respect it.?Paraphrasing the controversial G...

Why Kaixin001 Might Not Be Too Happy About Its Victory Over Oak Pacific Interactive

Posted on November 22, 2010
Social media site Kaixin001's content was copyied by Oak Pacific Interactive (who owns social media site Ren Ren). It was put online under the domain name Kaxin.Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled that Oak Pacific Interactive should pay to Kaixin001 400,000 RMB as compensation for damages, remove the copied content and stop using the name Kaixin (which means "happy") on the site...

China Launched 10-Year National Patent Development Strategy

Posted on November 22, 2010
During the 4th China Patent Week China launched the National Patent Development Strategy (2011-2020). The strategy focuses on:International cooperation in patent protection and utilisation;preferential policies to encourage R&D by high-tech companies, research institutes and colleges;Overseas IP websites so that foreign companies can check patent info;Establishment of organisations for patent trading in big cities...

USCBC Members' Perception: Progress of IPR Enforcement in China Marginal

Posted on November 19, 2010
The US-China Business Council (USCBC) released the 2010 Member Priorities Survey Results. Top 10 concerns cited by USCBC member companies:1. Human resources: talent recruitment and retention (tie)1. Administrative licensing, business, and product approvals (tie)1...

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USCC 2010 Report Released

Posted on November 18, 2010
2010 Report to [the U.S.] Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission (USCC) has been released. The report is 324 pages long and IP Dragon will read those parts relevant to intellectual property in China, including market access, in the coming weeks...

China Recognises Scotch Whisky as Geographical Indication

Posted on November 18, 2010
Great victory for the Scotch Whisky Association. "Scotch Whisky?s registration as a GI in China ? recognising Scotch Whisky can only be made inScotland - is the culmination of three years of discussions between The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) and the Chinese Government...

IP Dragon Chosen As One of the "25 Blogs Chinese Advertisers Should Read"

Posted on November 17, 2010
Normandy Madden composed a list of 25 blogs Chinese advertisers should read for Advertising Age:"Blogging has become a national obsession in China, with over 50 million Chinese regularly contributing to local blog sites. A handful of these sites are written in English, and provide a fascinating perspective on a country that is changing quickly...

IP Dragon Featured As Top 50 Patent Blog

Posted on November 17, 2010
IP Dragon was informed by the Guide to Online Schools that it was on the list of Top 50 Patent Blog. Thank you for the encouragement. Click on the banner to see the complete list.

More Chinese Trademarks More Vehicles of Innovation = More Innovation?

Posted on November 17, 2010
China Hearsay's Stan Abrams takes a critical look at statistics about trademark registrations in China. He is rightly filleting the alleged relationship between increased trademark registrations and a growing awareness of trademark protection among Chinese entreprises, read more here...

Best of Google's White Paper: Censorship is Hurting China's Economy

Posted on November 16, 2010
Intellectual property and market access are interdependent subjects. If there is a barrier to the free flow of information (the market access is challenged, regulated or censored when it refers to copyrighted goods), no intellectual property can be exploited and this will feed a demand for pirated works and counterfeit products...

Hotlines IPR in China

Posted on November 14, 2010
IPR Focus of IPR.gov.cn has announced that legal aid centres on IPR will participate in the 'Special Campaign on Combating IPR Infringement and Manufacture and Sales of Counterfeiting and Shoddy Commodities' via the following phone numbers: 12330: specialised public benefit hotline which provides IP-related legal aid and receives complaints "with quick response and serious attitude"; 12312: receiving complaints on commercial affairs...

Are Intellectual Property Rights A Subspecies of Human Rights?

Posted on November 13, 2010
Damian Reece, Head of Business of The Telegraph was commenting David Cameron's trip to China. According to Mr Reece his timing to talk about human rights was wrong and therefore counterproductive. Instead, writes Mr Reece, he should have focused on intellectual property rights related problems in China...

Another Mass IPR Campaign in China: Groundhog Day All Over Again

Posted on November 13, 2010
China's Ministry of Culture announced that it has launched an IPR campaign that cracks down on counterfeit products and needs to raise awareness about IPR protection. It focuses on karaoke bars, websites, online-games, internet cares, animation and artistic products...

Why The Chinese Educational System Is Not More Conducive To Creativity: Some Hypotheses

Posted on November 10, 2010
China is the country with the most creative people in the world. That is a truism in a country with 1.3 billion people. In the past China showed the world the way to creativity: compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing, all are Chinese inventions...

IP Dragon's Book Review: Invisible Gold in Asia

Posted on November 09, 2010
Professor David Llewelyn (King's College London and IP Academy, Singapore) wrote an exceptional book that will appeal to both laypeople and IP professionals. Although Invisible Gold in Asia does not aim to be a scholarly book (for example there are no footnotes), the book could not be written by a non-scholar...

Film Work Collective Copyright Management Use Fee Transfer Payment Rules

Posted on November 08, 2010
Remember that the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) promulgated rules for operators of internet cafes, planes, trains and automobiles have to start pay royalties for showing Chinese movies to the China Film Copyright Association. Read Hard Choice? Chinese Internet Café Owners/Transport Operators Can Choose Paying for Chinese Movies Or Using Free Pirated Movies...

SOSFakeFlash Cannot Forget: "Fighting Toward A Fake Flash Drive Free World"

Posted on November 05, 2010
SOSFakeFlash, is an interesting initiative. It is a site fighting "Toward a Fake Flash Drive Free World - No More Counterfeits - No More Data Loss" where people can report vendors of fake flash USB drives and MP players.For example according to SOSFakeFlash liaoqin_25688, registered in China, is an eBay seller of counterfeit Flash USB drives and MP players...

Fake Medicines Advertised on Taiwanese TV, Radio and in Newspapers

Posted on November 05, 2010
Taiwan's Health Minister Yang Chih-liang warns that the public should not believe TV, radio and newspaper advertisments selling fake pharmaceuticals. Minister Yang called the proliferation of counterfeit drugs more serious than drug trafficking. Read the China Post article here.

November 17: USCC Report about Indigenous Innovation, WTO and Disclosure Requirements

Posted on November 05, 2010
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) will release its 2010 Report to Congress at a press conference Wednesday, November 17.Among the topics in the 316-page report will be about: National defense and foreign affairs and energy and environmental issues...

How To Get The Copyright When You Commission a Work in China?

Posted on November 04, 2010
Xu Hui-Meng of the Henan University of Finance and Economics, Zhengzhou, wrote in May of 2010 the article: 'The research on the nature of the agreement of the ownership of the copyright of the commissioned works' for the Journal of Guangxi Administrative Cadre Institute of Politics and Law (????????????), volume 25, number 3...

Message of Blog Urges State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping "To Clarify" Intellectual Property Rights Position

Posted on November 03, 2010
Jia Li of the People's Daily reported that the State Bureau of Surveying and Maps (SBSM) announced that the Map World, a Chinese public platform for national geographical information was released on October 21, 2010 and was considered a web service independently developed by China...

Wise Advice From the Aeronautics Industry about IP

Posted on November 03, 2010
Boeing and Airbus see new competitors approaching, which includes China's Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd. (Comac) although whose inaugural model C919 might not be competitive outside China, for now.Carolyn Corvi, board member at aircraft supplier Goodrich Corp...

China's Efforts To Promote a Culture for IPR and IPR Exploitation

Posted on October 30, 2010
Zhong Yonghua, official of the Legal Affairs Department of the State Intellectual Property Organisation (SIPO) gave a presentation at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum in the Japanese city Sendai, last September, 2010, which included information about how China is promoting the exploitation of intellectual property in China, see here...

Professors Feng, Liu, Li, Lee and Sun: Enhanging IP Protection in Greater China

Posted on October 27, 2010
The University of Hong Kong organised another great event: Enhancing intellectual property protection in Greater China: Contemporary Issues and Critical Analysis.Professor Kung-Chung Liu, research fellow, Institutum Jurisprudentiae, Academica Sinica: spoke about "ECFA and IPR protection between China and Taiwan"...

IP Enforcement in China: IP Dragon's Presentation

Posted on October 26, 2010
This author (middle in the picture) gave a presentation at the 2nd Annual IPR seminar "Managing your IPR as a Business Asset" at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on June 25, 2010, which was funded by the European Union Business Information Program (EUBIP) and the China IPR SME Helpdesk...

Hard Choice? Chinese Internet Café Owners/Transport Operators Can Choose Between Paying For Chinese Movies Or Using Free Pirated Foreign Movies

Posted on October 26, 2010
Starting January 1, 2011, the China Film Copyright Association (CFCA) will charge money for the use of film works in internet cafés, on airplanes, ships and in buses and trains. They will start with eight municipalities and provinces, including Beijing, Shanghai and Jiangsu...

International Intellectual Property Summit in Hong Kong

Posted on October 20, 2010
Interpol, Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department and Underwriters Laboratories hosted the International Intellectual Property Summit in Hong Kong One of the speakers on October 18, was the US attorney general, Eric Holder. Besides, emphasising the consequences of counterfeiting and piracy he explained the framework in the US that should improve IP enforcement internationally:- White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Victoria Espinel;- National Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Center, led by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement;- Justice Department's Task Force on Intellectual Property...

Acrobats Show The Way of Doing Business in China: Register IPRs and Join Competition (No Need To Be Contortionist Though)

Posted on October 17, 2010
You have to have courage when you come to China, the cradle of incredible acrobatics, and vie for attention for your own acrobatic performances. Cirque du Soleil lacks no self-confidence, meticulously prepared and is now ready for any competition. Nick Rockel wrote an article for Canada TV (CTV) how the world renowned Canadian performances company is not only using its talents for its acrobatics (including local talent), but also for doing business in China: 'Cirque du Soleil draws on China's deep well of talent...

Surrealistic Copyright Infringement During Design Contest TIPO: Work Shattered, But the Truth Came Out

Posted on October 11, 2010
China National News reported the most surreal news IP Dragon has read for a long time. The Taiwanese Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) organised a design competition. The purpose was to make the public respect the intellectual property of other people...

How To Create The New Generation Of Copyists (The Shortcut)

Posted on October 11, 2010
Some kindergarten schools in Hong Kong want to develop their young students into creative beings. Some even make the step to change their curriculum so that drawing is included.But what if a youngster is acting creatively and starts to draw a frog .....

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