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Taylor Wessing Global Intellectual Property Index and China: The Last Shall...
The People’s Republic of China was ranked last (24th position) in the Taylor Wessing Global Intellectual Property Index 2009, see here. The methodology of the GIPI rating is a calculation by a factor...
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Supreme People’s Court of China: “Current Economic Situation Makes Granting...
December 2008, I dealt with the ‘Influence of the Financial Crisis on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property in China‘. In this post I wrote:In China there are still villages dependent on the...
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Murdoch, Procrustus and the WTO Copyright Cases
October 12, Sky Canaves of the Wall Street Journal has an article about Rupert Murdoch who is urging China to enforce copyright piracy and open up its market for copyrighted products. See here (or on...
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What Can A Famous Food Brand Do Against Footwear Using Its Mark?
As a vegetarian I do not frequent the many McDonald’s fastfood joints that can be found in China and which turn the slim people obese, just as they did with the American and European populations. I am...
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Best of Google’s White Paper: Censorship is Hurting China’s Economy
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...
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Trademark Logo Goes Up in Smoke To Save Australians? Let’s Check The...
How to warn peopleagainst blindness who cannot do not want to see? Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris was not amused when Australia announced last November 2010 that it would prohibit brand logos on...
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International Trade Law Prominent in National Law of People’s Republic of China
Professor Thomas Cottier, managing director of the World Trade Institute (WTI) and Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Trade Regulation shared his expertise on international trade...
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Divergence of US and UK Policies in Regard to IP in China: Pressure vs...
By Danny Friedmann China’s increasing economic power keeps on rumbling. While the US and UK seemed like identical twins in regard to foreign policy during the Bush-Blair era, recently the...
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Well-known Trademark in China (2014): No Longer Unknown, But Still Unloved?
By Danny Friedmann The Third Amendment to the Trademark Law, which, together with the revised Trademark Regulations, came into effect May 1st, 2014, in combination with the Well-known Trademark...
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Professor Bryan Mercurio on Patent Law: “One Size Does Not Necessarily Fit All”
Professor Bryan Mercurio (photo), Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow of Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong discussed “Amending the TRIPS Agreement to Promote Innovation” and...
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