By Ben to The 1709 Blog on 4/06/2012 01:59:00 PM The National Copyright Administration in China has published a preliminary amendment draft to revise China’s copyright laws (Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (modified draft)) on its official website (on March 31st). The draft has been posted to “collect public opinion and constructive [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Jason Subler and Samuel Shen @ SHANGHAI | Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:51am EST (Reuters) – A Shanghai court has rejected a request in a trademark case to stop Apple selling its iPad tablet computers in the city, averting an embarrassing suspension of iPad sales in its own flagship stores. The Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court denied a request by [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...by Dan @ Chinalawblog A reporter called me the other day on the Apple-Proview trademark kerfuffle. She kept wanting me to give her a quote on what foreign companies should take away from this dispute and I kept parrying with her, unable to give her just one. I kept finding myself saying “it’s probably more complicated [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By HELEN CHENG @ Allen & Overy On December 16, 2011, without much fanfare, the Chinese Supreme People’s Court (“the SPC”) issued judicial guidelines for IP infringement adjudication entitled “Opinion on Several Issues Relating to Sufficient Utilization of IP Adjudication to Foster Development and Prosperity of Socialist Culture and to Promote Autonomous and Coordinated Economic Development” (the [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...by Dan @ Chinalawblog on December 30, 2011 Just got back from a family vacation in Puerto Rico. While there, I saw a rental car company called “Target.” This company had the same logo as theTarget stores so common on the U.S. mainland. Well of course that got me to thinking. Is this rental car company infringing on [...]
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