Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. But AI is no panacea and is not yet sufficiently well developed to be precise or dependable everywhere.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a definitive force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial change, and has become the focus of international competition and industrial policy efforts in various countries. Driven by technological innovation, AI has been deeply integrated with all walks of life, propelling high-quality development and reshaping the world economy and human society.
The prosperity of the audio cultural industry is inseparable from the robust protection of audio copyrights and an environment that respects the creation of audio content and is conducive to the dissemination of audio content. Tong Gang delivered a speech to the guests from multi-dimensional and multi-perspective of academic, legal, policy, management, innovation, and practice, contributing to the healthy and sustainable development of the audio copyright industry.
Langkong Art Museum presented ‘An Intellectual Property Day’ during the ‘Linear’ exhibition in celebration of the publication of the 100th issue of China Intellectual Property magazine (English Edition) in Beijing on July 17. The event’s co-organizers include China Intellectual Property magazine, Beijing Sunshine Intellectual Property and Legal Development Foundation, and Zhongguancun Intellectual Property New Association.
ECTA is looking forward to welcoming many colleagues at its 39th Annual Conference ‘Waltzing with IP’ on 21-22 October 2021, this year in a hybrid format. For safety reasons, this prestigious European IP event will be organised either in Vienna for a limited number of participants and online. We have ensured a very engaging programme with most distinguished guests and speakers such as WIPO Director General Daren Tang: find out what you may expect and register soon!
The Counsellors Office of Beijing Municipal People's Government and Cloud River Urban Research Institute jointly published a report that makes a comprehensive comparison of the three S&T clusters and further discusses the innovation strengths and weaknesses of Beijing.
This case is an exploration of "other" unfair competition acts under Article 12 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law and provides guidelines for the adjudication of similar cases involving cybercrimes.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of INTA’s China Representative Office. Recently, China IP was invited to attend the 20th anniversary event of the Office held in Beijing. At the event, China IP interviewed Mr.Etienne Sanz de Acedo, CEO of INTA.
Founded in 2019, BDPE has served leading enterprises including Huawei, Deutsche Telekom, etc. The team also dealt with over 40 patent litigation cases for Chinese clients from just 2021 to 2022. Recently, China IP interviewed the firm to find out the secret of its success.
Now, when we talk about Metaverse and NFTs, and you refer to the Hermes case, this is a question of how the development of how new technologies can affect existing rights. And what is the balance between art, creation, and existing IP rights?
Recently, Mr.Davide Luigi Petraz and Mr.Daniele Giovanni Petraz, two managing partners of GLP, were invited to share with us their views on the latest developments of intellectual property in Italy and Europe, as well as the secrets of GLP's success over the past 55 years.
Established in 1995, Watson & Band is one of the oldest law firms in Shanghai and even in East China to be involved in the intellectual property business, also one of China’s oldest intellectual property service providers with the qualifications of foreign-related patent agency. Today, Watson & Band has developed into an integrated legal and IP services provider that is represented primarily by Watson & Band Law Offices and Watson & Band Intellectual Property Agent Ltd.
Following the launch of the plan, the 14th National People’s Congress of China passed the institutional reform of the State Council. The functions of CNIPA and the SAMR are now coordinated, and the enforcement teams of SAMR maintain the duty to enforce the law for trademarks and patents, under the professional guidance of the CNIPA. But what does this reform mean for dispute resolution, particularly arbitration, in resolving disputes around IP?
On 29 November 2022, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposals for a new Directive on the legal protection of designs (hereafter “DDir”) and a new Regulation on Community designs (hereafter “DReg”). The Directive is the instrument used to provide harmonization amongst EU Member States with regard to their national design laws.
The recent judgement of the General Court of the European Union in Case T‑323/21 Castel Frères v. Shanghai Panati Co. deals with the genuine use of a trade mark and distinctiveness of Chinese character trade marks in the EU. The Court decided that the registration of the contested Chinese character trade mark shall be revoked because its level of distinctiveness is below the average and it had been only used as a decorative element and not as an indication of origin of the goods.
Article 25 of the Patent Law provides for six types of subject matters for which no patent right should be granted. No matter how practical, novel or inventive they are, specific results covered by such subject matters are excluded from patent protection. Nevertheless, the determination of ineligible subject matters does not require evidence to aid comparison as in the case of commenting on novelty or inventiveness, which can be concluded directly and merely by deductive reasoning.
From the perspective of the legislative purpose, the purposes of formulating the patent law are the same in all countries in the world, and with the continuous development of globalization and deepening international cooperation, international patent procedures such as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) have emerged accordingly. However, there still exist subtle differences in many provisions of the patent law of each country depending on their actual situations.
On January 13, 2023, the\ CNIPA issued the Bill to Revise the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China. This paper will sort out the key amendments that have the greatest impact on trademark practice, and discuss the reasons behind the amendment, the possible influence and the countermeasures that shall be taken by a right holder.
The correct trial of this case plays a vital role in unifying adjudication standards of former employees' using the original company's customer information to infringe on trade secrets, improving the rules of evidence application, hearing civil cases of infringement of trade secrets in a fair manner in accordance with the law, and creating a legalized business environment.
it is of great significance to clarify the ideas of handling intellectual property technical investigation cases, fully utilize the opinions and information in patent examination and authorization to improve technical investigation opinions, and deal with the contradiction between a large number of technical investigation cases and little personnel, so as to unify review and confirmation of rights and judicial judgment standards and improve the quality and efficiency of intellectual property trials.
The special feature of this case is that the trademark was still legally in existence when the accused trademark was used by Nanchangxin Company, but was later cancelled (invalid).
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Armenian is the only official language even though Russian is widely used.
The 2022 INTA Annual Meeting will be held in Washington DC as a physical event with virtual components from April 30 to May 4. With 6,500 organizations from 185 countries comprising INTA’s membership, its annual meeting has been recognized as the world’s largest IP event. As INTA’s media partner in China since 2014, China IP on February 28 interviewed INTA CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo.
Zeeger Vink, IP director of MF Brands Group, is the INTA 2022 President. In this role, he is Chair of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. In an interview with China IP, Mr. Vink shares his insight on trademarks and brands, provides practical advice to Chinese members on how to participate in and benefit from the INTA community. INTA Annual Meeting Live+ officially began on April 30, took place in person in Washington, D.C., and virtual.
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