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Posted on March 16, 2012 by ipdragonimport

Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin dashboard) to start a fresh post. Here are some suggestions … Continue reading →

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Chinese Movie Posters Give You "Double Vision" Without The Alcohol

Posted on March 13, 2012 by ipdragonimport

Clone and OriginalThe silver screen is known to bring out the imagination of people. However, China’s film industry has not given birth to a poster child of creativity, eyeing laboriously to any movie that has some measure of success, Chinese … Continue reading →

Posted in copyright, film, independent creation, movie posters, movies | Leave a comment

Hausse of Chinese Companies Protecting Their Inventions Overseas

Posted on March 8, 2012 by ipdragonimport

+ 33.4%Some international patent filings statistics from Geneva. The amount of international patent filings of Chinese companies and educational institutions grew with a stunning 33,4 percent in 2011 to 16,406. This means that more and more Chinese companies and educational … Continue reading →

Posted in Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Huawei, invention patent, PCT, Tsinghua University, WIPO, ZTE | Leave a comment

Google And the Law, The Book

Posted on March 6, 2012 by ipdragonimport

Did Google go too far … or is Google victim of legal lag? Yours truly had the honour to write a chapter for a very promising book called Google and the Law edited by Dr. Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella, of which I have so … Continue reading →

Posted in Annsley Merelle Ward, Aurelio López-Tarruella Martinez, censorship, China Intellectual Property, Google and censorship, Google and the Law, Jeremy Phillips, Mr Frederik Borgesius | Leave a comment

Do Trademarks Killl? Or Are They Victim? A Hong Kong Story With A Happy Ending

Posted on March 4, 2012 by ipdragonimport

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 that upheld the registration of Philip Morris’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Annelise Connell, Clifford Chance, Florence Lam, Hong Kong, Ling Ho, Marlboro, Marlboro Lights, Trade Marks Ordinance, trademark revocations, trademarked slogans, Wilkinson and Grist | Leave a comment

Current State On Writing On Counterfeiting in China

Posted on February 29, 2012 by ipdragonimport

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 its assertions. The first part of the article … Continue reading →

Posted in Economist, IP Finance, Neil Wilkoff, perception | Leave a comment

Precious Lessons Learned From Hermès’ Unregistered Trademark In China

Posted on February 28, 2012 by ipdragonimport

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, according to Shanghai Daily, see here. In 1995 Dafeng … Continue reading →

Posted in Chinese characters, 爱玛仕, 爱马仕, famous brand, Hermes, SAIC, TRAB, trademark in China, well-known trademark | Leave a comment

Supporting Qiaodan Brand Is Not Patriotic, But Harmful To China

Posted on February 28, 2012 by ipdragonimport

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 trademarked in China without Michael Jordan’s permission. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Bai Yan Song, CCTV, CRI, Jeremy Lin, Michael Jordan, Qiaodan, reputation, trademark infringement, 乔丹 | Leave a comment

iPad, youPad, wePad? Who Is the Owner of the Trademark in China?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by ipdragonimport

iPads for sale in the Apple Store at Central, Hong Kong Photo Danny Friedmann Apple introduced a third category, in between a laptop and smartphone, on January 27, 2010 (see the late Steve Jobs give the presentation here and demonstration here and here). April … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Guangdong Higher People's Court, Hong Kong, iPad, Proview Electronics, Shanghai Pudong New Area Court, Shenzhen, Taiwan, trademark infringement | Leave a comment

SPC Notice: Full Exertion of IPR Adjudication Functions to Promote the Boom, Socialist Culture and Autonomous and Harmonious Development

Posted on February 18, 2012 by ipdragonimport

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 socialist culture and the promotion of economic autonomy … Continue reading →

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