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A Quick Report on the MIIT Conference Including SAIC’s IP Abuse Rules, Patent...
MIIT’s Conference on Intellectual Property Standards and Anti-Monopoly Law convened on December 10 and 11 in Beijing. The conference brought together about 150 international and Chinese experts,...
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JCCT 2014 Winds Up
The 2014 JCCT was hosted by the US government in Chicago, Illinois this year. Here is a link to the fact sheet that was released yesterday, December 19, 2014. Here is a summary of the IP...
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“I’m Lovin’ it!” – A “Wrong Way” for McDonalds?
My colleague at Fordham Law, Geoffrey Sant, has written an interesting blog on Salon “McDonald’s self-hating complex: Why its overseas P.R. campaign is the worst of all time” that addresses...
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GAI Comments on SAIC IP Abuse Guidelines, NDRC’s Up For Comment
Attached are the comments of the Global Antitrust Institute on SAIC’s draft IPR Abuse Guidelines. NDRC’s comments are also up for comment, with a due date of January 20, 2016. SIPO is also reportedly...
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GAI’S Comments on NDRC’s IP Abuse Guidelines
“[T]he code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules” (Barbossa, Pirates of the Carribean, The Curse of the Black Pearl). Attached find the comments of the Global Antitrust Institute of...
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SAIC Announces Its Latest Draft of IP Abuse Guidelines
“[T]he word transparency [is] the ‘most opaque in the trade policy lexicon.’” Sylvia Ostry On Feb. 4, 2016, SAIC published for public comment its draft Guidelines On Anti-Trust Enforcement Against IP...
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IPR Abuse and Refusals to License
The US Chamber and American Chamber of Commerce (the “Chambers”) have recently made available its recent comments on the NDRC and SAIC drafts of the IP abuse guidelines to be promulgated by the...
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Beginning the Journey for Trade Secret Reform: the Recent AUCL Draft
A much awaited, proposed public draft revision to the Antiunfair Competition Law was released by the State Council Legislative Affairs Office on February 25, 2016. Comments are due by March 25, 2016....
View ArticleSIPO/IP Agencies to Be Reorganized and Consolidated
Several Chinese news agencies have reported on by the State Council, the proposed reorganization now being presented to the National People’s Congress, which will significantly rearrange all Chinese...
View ArticleFurther Trade-Responsive IP Legislative Developments May Be In the Works…
“When a stranger lives with you in your land, do not mistreat him. The stranger living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were strangers in Egypt.”...
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