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Smartphone Patent War 2012: Chinese Alliance vs International Brands
The battlefield of patents are more and more the place where competitors are vying for market share. China has become the world's largest market for smart phones in the third quarter of 2011, according...
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Golden Combination: Chow Tai Fook and Disney
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes," said Winnie the Pooh.Winnie the Pooh: "All this gold makes me crave for ......
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Fast Moving Counterfeit Goods From China Found in India
For a long time FMCG was the abbreviation for Fast Moving Consumer Goods, also in India. But you might take the C to mean counterfeit, because an increasing amount of counterfeit healthcare, skin...
View ArticleChina's NCA: Authorized Copyrighted Works on Video Sharing Sites Average 76...
"China's National Copyright Administration (NCA) recently announced that on average, only 76 percent of the movies and TV series on the country's 18 major video-sharingwebsites are authorized...
View ArticleKey IP Question Before Considering Joint-Venture: Am I Educating My Future...
Colin Davies, managing director of Accenture Software, wrote a column for China Daily European Weekly (always asking whether the content is not usable for the Chinese edition) about ways that will make...
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"Rethinking IP" Round Table HKU - Drake University
Knowles Building, at HKUPhoto: Danny FriedmannLast Saturday morning, lawyers, academics and students from Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Australia, Japan and the U.S., all passionate about intellectual...
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Rethinking Intellectual Property Protection in Hong Kong
After the welcome remarks by professor Douglas Arner (head Department of Law, HKU) and the opening speech by Peter Cheung, (director IPD, HKSAR Government) see here, the first panel presentation of the...
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Sanrio Brand Licensor Says The Darndest Things, Or Maybe Not
TGIFPeter Ollier wrote an article about how Disney and Sanrio are licensing some of their brands in China.Licensable "cuteness" popular among Hong Kong populationLanham Place, Mong KokPhoto: Danny...
View ArticleMicrosoft Applies Doctrine of Landlord Liability To Software Piracy
Peter Ollier has an interesting article for Managing Copyright about Microsoft's alleged first landlord liability case to tackle rampant software piracy.Microsoft is suing Beijing Chaoyang Buynow...
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Toyota on a Chain: Creatively Challenged Art or Parody?
Last year's Hong Kong International Art Fair at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre included the "Toyota Chain", by Thomas Hirschhorn, which, was exactly that. Mr Hirschhorn, a Swiss artist,...
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Must Read of the Month: Subject of the Emperor Filed Enhanced Nutcracker...
Mark Cohen, IP in China expert, who is now a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, has a great blog called ChinaIPR.com. He recently posted the most fascinating article post of the year: China's...
View Article"Chinese Government Takes IP Dead Serious"
"“The government is taking IP dead seriously,” says Danny Friedmann, an IP rights consultant in China and founder of the popular blog IP Dragon. “In fact their fate is connected to it.”"Read Melissa...
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Future President China Mentions IPR First As Sino-U.S. Challenge
Xi Jinping, Vice President of PRCprobably the next President of China in 2012Xí Jìnpíng 习近平, China's vice president, and probably the successor of Hu Jintao as president in 2012, wrote to the...
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China's Influence On Non-Trade Concerns In International Economic Law
Maastricht University, Faculty of LawProfessor Paolo Farah organised with a grant from China-EU School of Law (CESL) in Beijing three conferences on China and Non-trade Issues. The first was held at...
View ArticleSPC Notice: Full Exertion of IPR Adjudication Functions to Promote the Boom,...
16 December, 2011, Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China issued the notice to fully play the role of IPR judicial functions to promote the great development and prosperity of...
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iPad, youPad, wePad? Who Is the Owner of the Trademark in China?
iPads for sale in the Apple Store at Central, Hong Kong Photo Danny FriedmannApple introduced a third category, in between a laptop and smartphone, on January 27, 2010 (see the late Steve Jobs give the...
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Supporting Qiaodan Brand Is Not Patriotic, But Harmful To China
An iconic photo of Michael Jordan getting the basketball was made into a mirror-like silhouette logo, and then used with the phonetically similar name 乔丹 Qiáodān, and both the logo and name were...
View ArticlePrecious Lessons Learned From Hermès' Unregistered Trademark In China
Love for horses, Love for gemsAlthough Hermès registered its trademark in China since 1977, it had not yet registered its Chinese name 爱马仕 (Ài mǎ shì) as a trademark the Legal Evening News wrote,...
View ArticleCurrent State On Writing On Counterfeiting in China
Comment on commentNeil Wilkoff, blogger of IP Finance, commented on an Economist article, called Pro Logo: Brands in China (January 14, 2012) see here, that did not give enough context nor support for...
View ArticleDo Trademarks Killl? Or Are They Victim? A Hong Kong Story With A Happy Ending
Florence Ka-Yee Lam, lawyer at Wilkinson & Grist which was already founded in 1860, wrote an interesting legal brief for IAM magazine on a current decision by the trademark registry of Hong Kong...
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