Category Archives: Intellectual Property

Johnnie Worker and his red labial

Posted on 2008-05-30 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A pirate Johnnie Walker bottle of whiskey.

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Rift in Sino-US intellectual property dialogue blamed on WTO case

Posted on 2007-10-26 by maya

On Monday, China prevented the World Trade Organization (WTO) from establishing an expert panel to arbitrate the intellectual property (IPR) case filed in April by the US.

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Is ad-blocking illegal? Coral QQ author arrested

Posted on 2007-09-30 by Joel Martinsen

Soff (aka Chen Shoufu 陈寿福), architect of Coral QQ (珊瑚虫) is arrested. Did Tencent pay off the cops?

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Cory Doctorow speaking at the Beijing Bookworm

Posted on 2007-09-14 by Jeremy Goldkorn

On Wednesday science fiction writer, Boing Boing editor and copyright activist Cory Doctorow gave a speech at the Beijing Bookworm to an enthusiastic crowd. Victor Muh filmed the whole speech and uploaded it to Youtube. The guy wearing an Antiwave … Continue reading →

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WTO suit brews; China establishes patent centers

Posted on 2007-09-07 by maya

As a non-adversarial approach to IPR enforcement that transforms the Chinese from “bad guys” into stakeholders, these in-house patent resource centers seem promising.

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US vs. China: pointless IPR-related WTO suit drags on

Posted on 2007-08-21 by maya

IPR at the WTO from China Business Times (中华工商时报).

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New adventures in book piracy

Posted on 2007-08-03 by Joel Martinsen

Hanwang (汉王) offers a scanning pen (e摘客).

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Limited IPR relief for Nike, Adidas and Hollywood studios

Posted on 2007-07-27 by maya

Movie title or next step on IPR enforcement? The past two weeks have seen an interesting assortment of IPR developments. In a fresh installment of what seems to be the never-ending saga of the Silk Street market, enforcement authorities raided … Continue reading →

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Google (China) vs. Beijing Guge

Posted on 2007-07-13 by Joel Martinsen

Google (谷歌) gets sued by a Beijing-based company of the same name.

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China, US getting nowhere fast in the WTO

Posted on 2007-07-12 by maya

China “strikes hard” against counterfeits No news isn’t good news when it comes to the two IPR-related WTO cases that the US filed against China on April 11. According to WTO procedures, the parties were to have had 60 days … Continue reading →

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