the 197th Issue: Film Industry In Developing Countries Needs To Implement Copyright-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·China’s service trade up 13.4 pct Jan.-Sept.

China’s service trade grew 13.4 percent year on year in the first nine months of 2013 to reach 390.5 billion U.S. dollars, official data showed on Tuesday... More

· ’Golden Patents’ honored

The State Intellectual Property Office announced the winners of 2013 China Gold Patent Awards on Monday with 20 invention patents and five industrial designs honored... More

News in Brief

· Anti-piracy alliance pits Web portals against Baidu

· Jiangxi: 830,000 Faked Labels

· Yang Tiejun Meets Visiting Delegation of Intellectual Property Owners Association

· Greater protection for creative ideas

· Measuring the achievements of KIPO’s IP automation system

· New Zealand Trade and Enterprise brings eight high-tech enterprises to CHTF

· Algeria joins two copyright treaties

· Tesla ready to roll, but short circuit in trademark rights

· Sweet smell of strawberries and success for Goldenway Bio-Tech

· The largest trademark dispute concerning convenience foods came to an end

China IP Articles

· Statutory comparison of examinations of utility defects and of invention patent Issue 56, By Lin Bin, Yu Feng,[Patent]

The preliminary examination of utility models for substantive defects is conducted to look for “conspicuous” ones. This article will make a comparison and analysis from three aspects: subject matter, written description and the lack of necessary technical features... More

· Plight of protection of merchandising rights and breakthrough in practice Issue 56, By Kevin Nie, China IP,[Comprehensive Reports]

It is well known that currently there is no uniform global system in place that protects merchandising rights, to say nothing of mature international legislation, but exploration is underway. China has neither put in place a complete system for the merchandising rights nor recognized the rights in legislation... More