Archive for the 'intellectual property' Category

• 06.22.08 Intellectual Property: Introduction of China’s Intellectual Property Strategy
  
  "China has promulgated its own intellectual property strategy, which is aimed at promoting innovation and the use of new technologies by China's industries. It's hoped that via the implementation of the strategy, all innovations will be respected and more wealth will be created..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, creativity, market, trade, intellectual property, wealth, china, innovation, economics
• 04.20.08 Intellectual Property: China to strengthen IPR protection
  
  "Chinese government will work to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) protection, China's Vice Premier Wu Yi said on a national conference for directors of intellectual property offices recently. China has made progress in the past 30 years in IPR protection, represented by the growing number and quality of IPRs which have been widely and effectively applied to practical production, Wu said..."  read on
  
  posted in european union, trade, intellectual property, innovation, china
• 04.12.08 Design in China: Shanghai to establish excellence center for branding and corporate identities
  
  "Shanghai industrial and commercial authorities will help companies develop brand logos to increase the number of local logos registered overseas to 20,000 by the year 2012, officials said recently. To help achieve the target, the Shanghai Bureau of Industrial and Commercial Administration said it would build a public service platform in the bureau. The platform would provide logo registration and design consultation, a legal service, value estimation and logo trade for companies..."  read on
  
  posted in creativity, market, trade, shanghai, china, intellectual property, design
• 03.18.08 Intellectual Property: Shanghai leads China in innovation
  
  "Shanghai has ranked first in the national annual report on regional innovation ability for the third-straight year while Beijing and Guangdong finished second and third respectively, said the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai recently. Indexes on knowledge creativity, industry structure and hardware for scientific and technological innovation earned Shanghai higher marks compared to previous years."  read on
  
  posted in research, creativity, shanghai, intellectual property, china, innovation, information technology
• 01.18.08 Intellectual Property: Internet piracy still poses a challenge in China
  
  "Yan Xiaohong, vice-minister of the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), said on Thursday at a press conference that the authorities shut down 339 illegal websites, confiscated 123 servers and imposed fines of more than 870,000 yuan (about 120,000U.S. dollars) on violators. Despite repeated crackdowns on online piracy, it is still a challenge to protect intellectual property rights: "Internet copyright infringement is still very prevalent in the country", Yan told a press conference held by the State Council Information Office recently, noting that illegal downloading of movies, software and music is the most common form of online piracy..."  read on
  
  posted in industry, united states, trade, beijing, china, intellectual property, internet
• 01.18.08 Intellectual Property: China Will Issue Intellectual Property Rights Strategy
  
  "Wang Ziqiang, director of the Copyright Management Division of National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), announced that China would officially issue its national intellectual property rights strategy in 2008 to define the principles, development directions and achievements in intellectual property rights protection. Wang said that the year of 2008 would be a significant year for China, because China's intellectual property right protection would enter a new period of receiving supervision from all the WTO members under the principles of WTO now that the interim period for China's copyrights was going to conclude..."  read on
  
  posted in intellectual property, innovation, china
• 01.18.08 Intellectual Property: Shanghai takes action over Trademarks
  
  "Shanghai trademark watchdogs have investigated 3,032 trademark violation cases involving 99.72 million yuan (US$13.66 million) worth of goods since the city's working plan for intellectual property protection was enacted two years ago: officials have paid special attention to small commodities markets, promotion sales of international brands, and stores in hotels..."  read on
  
  posted in market, trade, shanghai, intellectual property, china
• 11.29.07 Study finds data security in China below world average
  
  "China lags behind global levels of information security and the gap is in the policy environment and business awareness - not in technology, PricewaterhouseCoopers said yesterday in Shanghai. Chinese firms lack protection of privacy, intellectual property and internal control, according to the fifth annual Global State of Information Security Study 2007 jointly conducted by PWC, CIO Magazine and CSO Magazine..."  read on
  
  posted in hong kong, research, software, shanghai, china, intellectual property, information technology
• 11.07.07 China Enacts National Competition Law
  
  "Culminating a 13-year drafting process, on August 30 the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress enacted China's first competition law, the Anti-Monopoly Law ( [Fan Longduan Fa] ). It prohibits discriminatory and anti-competitive practices by local administrative and public bodies against products, business operators and investors from other parts of China, and Fines for monopoly agreements and abuses of dominant position may range as high as one to ten percent of the wrongdoing company's total sales volume in the relevant market during the previous year..."  read on
  
  posted in macao, industry, taiwan, united states, market, hong kong, trade, wealth, socialism, china, intellectual property, economics
• 11.06.07 China handles 60,000 IPR infringement cases in past 5 years
  
  "China's industry and commerce authorities have handled more than 60,000 intellectual property rights infringement cases amid stepped-up efforts in IPR protection after its entry into the World Trade Organization, according to a senior official. From 2002 through the first half of this year, the country's industry and commerce departments at all levels have dealt with 60,203 IPR infringement cases valued at 1.4 billion yuan (186 million U.S. dollars), said Li Wenzhang, deputy director of the fair trade bureau of the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC)..."  read on
  
  posted in trade, changsha, hunan, intellectual property, china, wealth, design, economics

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