the 39th Issue: China: Google breaks promise, totally wrong to stop censoring-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·China: Google breaks promise, totally wrong to stop censoring
BEIJING - Google has "violated its written promise" and is "totally wrong" by stopping censoring its Chinese language searching results and blaming China for alleged hacker attacks, a government official said early Tuesday morning.More

·Protecting foreign trademarks gets serious
Chinese law firms representing foreign trademarks are stepping up their efforts to protect their clients' intellectual property in China. After last week's confiscation of fake badges with Hard Rock's trademark, Apple's trademark representative in China raided the Silk Street Market, a popular shopping center among tourists, Thursday for mp3 players with fake Apple logos.More

·International trademark filings drop in 2009: WIPO

GENEVA, March 18 (Xinhua) -- International trademark filings tracked by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) dropped by 16 percent in 2009. "That is a very significant amount," WIPO secretary general Francis Gurry said here.More

·Why we can trust the Chinese': By Inventor Trevor Bayliss

A court in Beijing today fined two Chinese manufacturers for infringing the patent on a British company's kettle design. The ruling was welcomed by Trevor Bayliss, who thanked the Chinese judicial system for standing up for British inventors.More

·Shanghai: Two honored for science innovation
·First Shanghai Expo logo infringement case thwarted
·Tencent: Popularity brings profit - and infringement
·25 years of intellectual property protection
·New SAIC Nanjing plant rolls out own-brand cars
·CWA urges Google to keep promise on copyright issue
·China exports first subway train to India
·Tibet's show of ICH to debut in Beijing
·Just say no to fake products
·City starts crackdown on piracy
·Silk Street renovated to get rid of phony goods
·Beijing Court Takes CARTIER Trademark Infringement Claim
·Just say no to fake products
·City starts crackdown on piracy

China IP Articles

·The Statutory Right of Publicity for Deceased Celebrities in California and the Impact of Senate Bill 771 Issue 34 By Thomas F. Zuber,[Copyright]
When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 771 into law on October 10, 2007, it marked the latest chapter in the continuing saga of publicity rights in California. California’s evolving law on the right of publicity is widely viewed as both the most progressive and the most controversial in the country; SB 771 is no exception. While it expands posthumous publicity rights, this latest amendment, which some contend was rushed through the legislature at the behest of a greedy licensee for its own purposes, will likely spawn its own line of litigation.More

·Being a Good Assistant-- An interview with the CSC Executive Deputy President Zhang Xiuping By By Kevin Nie, China IP,[Copyright]
On November 20-21, the Annual Conference of China Copyright 2009 was hosted by the Copyright Society of China (CSC) under the guidance of the State Copyright Bureau (SCB). This follows last year’s first successful annual conference on copyright. Eleven people, including famous movie director Feng Xiaogang, reputed actor Jiang Kun, the influential CEO of Tencent Corporation Chen Yidan and author of children works Yang Hongying, were selected as the “Influential Persons of China’s Copyright Industry 2009”, and 16 enterprises, such as CCTV, CNPUBG and Hanwang, were acclaimed as “the Most Influential Enterprises in China’s Copyright Industry 2009”.More