Monthly Archives: January 2010

Incremental Pharmaceutical Inventions in China and India: "No Need to Reinvent the Wheel"

Posted on January 31, 2010 by ipdragonimport

For those who missed it, in 2008, the Intellectual Property Association of Japan (IPAJ) published an interesting article by Parama Sinha Palit and Bhaskar Bhattacharya called ‘Does Intellectual Property Laws in India and China Encourage Innovation’. Messrs Palit and Bhattacharya, … Continue reading →

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Say My Name Say My Name …No Domain Name For Individuals In China

Posted on January 31, 2010 by ipdragonimport

January 30th, 2010, Verna Yu wrote an interesting article for the South China Morning Post: ‘Upset Net Users Show Their Discontent On Censor’s Website’. Ms Yu wrote that the website of the government’s internet censor in Hunan was attacked by … Continue reading →

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Goojje.com Infringes Intellectual Property Of Both Google And Baidu

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ipdragonimport

Yu Le and Ralph Jennings have an article for Reuters on the PC Magazine website about a Google clone called Goojje.com, probably using Google’s technology without permission, with part of the Baidu logo in its logo. It wants to compete … Continue reading →

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2010: Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court: "Baidu, Sohu/Sogou Are No Copyright Pirates"

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ipdragonimport

– In June 2005 Shanghai Bu-sheng Music, a branch of EMI in China, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Baidu. Baidu was found liable by People’s Court of Haidian District in Beijing for copyright infringement in September 16, 2005. Read … Continue reading →

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Almost One Million Patent Applications in China in 2009

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ipdragonimport

China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) reports the following statistics: 976,686 patent applications (up 17.9%) 877,611 domestic (89.9% and up 22.4%) 99,075 from abroad (10.1%, down 10.9%) 229,096 invention-patents (up 17.7%) 308,861 utility model-patents (up 37.9%) 339,654 design-patents (up 13.7%) … Continue reading →

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Multifaceted Spectrum of De Facto Strategies to Enforce IPR in China

Posted on January 28, 2010 by ipdragonimport

Professors Marcus M. Keupp, Angela Beckenbauer and Oliver Gassmann all connected to the Department of Business Administration, Institute of Technology Management of University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, wrote a very interesting article: ‘Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights in Weak Appropriability Regimes, … Continue reading →

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Chinese MacBook Air knockoffs: Better Than the Real Thing?

Posted on January 27, 2010 by ipdragonimport

Brian X. Chen is running the China Gadget Guide review for Wired about Chinese MacBook Air knockoffs that are on sale in Shenzhen. “Chinese knockoffs of the MacBook Air could actually be a compelling option for those desiring the razor-thin … Continue reading →

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Knocked Up Because of Knock Off Or How To Protect The Protection

Posted on January 27, 2010 by ipdragonimport

The US condom brand Trojan had problems with Chinese counterfeiters, read ‘Born Thanks To Counterfeiters‘ medio 2008. However, it became clear that also other brands are coping with trademark infringements. Usage of these counterfeits can cause serious health problems (sexual … Continue reading →

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Rogier Creemers’ Take on Google in China

Posted on January 15, 2010 by ipdragonimport

IP Dragon’s esteemed friend Rogier Creemers is doing a PhD at the University of Maastricht on copyright and media control in China. Below is a guest column of Mr Creemers on Google in China: “By now, most in the blogosphere … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Google.cn? Thanks To Censorship and IP Infringements Or Just Face-saving Exit?

Posted on January 14, 2010 by ipdragonimport

Google.cn is threatening to pull out of China, because of “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google.” Read the official Google blog about it … Continue reading →

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