the 28th Issue: Baidu search engine set to face copyright lawsuit-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·Baidu search engine set to face copyright lawsuit
Baidu, China's biggest search engine, is set to face a lawsuit for allegedly pirating from the country's leading online literature website, Shanda Literature Limited (SDL).Baidu is the latest leading search engine to be entangled in high-profile legal action after Google was sued by Chinese novelist Mian Mian for alleged copyright infringement this week.More

·Chinese expert: Chinese should be WIPO working language

Director of the Expert Committee of Chinese Trademark Association Dong Baolin put forward on December 22 when being interviewed, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) should use Chinese as work language in Madrid System and at the same time, Dong suggested Chinese government to hand in a proposal to WIPO.More

·Animation studios call for copyright protection
"Pleasant Sheep and Big Bad Wolf" is China's version of Tom and Jerry. The cartoon is so popular that nearly 80 percent of its production is pirated. Chinese animation studios now say that copyright protection is urgently needed in the country. And industry insiders are taking action.More

·China closes first Karaoke bar over copyright infringement

TAIYUAN: A Karaoke bar in Taiyuan, capital of northern Shanxi Province, became the first to be closed over copyright infringement as court police sealed its front door Wednesday. China Audio Media Co., Ltd sued Fumanlou Karaoke Bar for playing more than 30 songs of the company without paying royalties in March.More

·The Chinese domain name ".香港" to be used next year
·High technology powers provincial revitalization
·Top WTO judges reject China appeal on film imports
·Google begins books digitization in French library
·Conferences call for online copyright protection
·Bayer Tongji IPR Forum focuses on industry-university cooperation
·1st China Internet Innovation and IPR Protection Summit to be held
·The first case of industrial design infringement in China adjudged
·Lawsuit of Anti-Piracy Union against Coca-Cola and Youku rejected

China IP Articles

·Two Anti-Piracy Alliances, Same Enemy Issue 32, China IP,[Copyright]
After this September, every video website and websites with video channels except CCTV.com, Ifeng, Sohu, JOY.cn and Union Voole, will have to ask themselves: Are we piracy sites? Are we going to spend money on copyright to become “genuine video sites?”If they do not think over these questions, they will receive attorney letters or even court notices requested by one or both of the two alliances, i.e. “CCTV-IFeng Network Video Copyright Protection Alliance” launched by CCTV.com and Ifeng on August 19 and the “China Network Video Anti-Piracy Alliance,” jointly initiated by Sohu, JOY.cn, Union Voole and Huaxia Shilian on September 18.More

·Patent Protection – An Eternal Topic of R&D-Oriented Drug Companies Issue 32, By Doris Li, Photo by Zhou Yi, China IP,[Comprehensive Reports]
On August 20, 2004, Sanofi-Aventis Group was founded. Calculated by time, this group should be regarded as a “new” business. However, no one dared to overlook this merger considering the background of the two giant companies. After the “phoenix nirvana”, the two international businesses now target the huge international market of drug industry. In 1982, Sanofi, as the first foreign investment into China’s drug industry, opened its office in Beijing. The predecessor of Aventis is also well-known.More