Blog entries posted in Intellectual Property Right (IPR)

IPR: China's drive for patents in 'wrong direction'

Qiao LAB — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:43:38 +0100

CHINA'S drive to produce millions of new patents in the next few years as part of a switch from a "made in China" to "designed in China" economic model will curtail innovation standards, a European study warned yesterday.

China is seeking to transform itself from being the world's factory floor into a global pioneer by setting ...

China IPR violation cases drop

Qiao LAB — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:45:41 +0100

China's ongoing efforts at cracking down on intellectual property rights violation are paying dividends, according to the Ministry of Commerce, after it revealed that the number of cases had dropped in the first five months of the year.

But despite the move in the right direction, Jiang Zengwei, vice-minister of commerce, said China wi...

IPR: Bloomberg: Shanghai company a copycat

China Media LAB — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:23:58 +0100

A SHANGHAI court heard a case yesterday as the world's largest finance data provider, Bloomberg LP, sued Shanghai Great Wisdom Co for copying its software and hardware designs.

The dispute was a highlight of heated competition in China's financial information service market as the country steps up efforts to develop an...

IPR China: Apple pays US$60m to settle iPad dispute

China Media LAB — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:55:48 +0100

APPLE Inc has agreed to pay US$60 million to Shenzhen-based Proview to end a dispute over the iPad trademark on the Chinese mainland that started two years ago.

Both sides reached the settlement agreement on June 25 and Apple had transferred the funds to the account of the Higher People's Court of Guangdong Province, th...

WebTV: PPTV must pay for infringing copyright of Japanese TV series

Qiao LAB — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:06:50 +0100

PPTV was ordered to pay 25,000 yuan (US$3,967) for infringing the copyright of the popular Japanese science fiction TV series "Ultraman Diga" on its online video-sharing platform, the Pudong New Area People's Court said yesterday.

The plaintiff, Shanghai Character License Administrative Co (SCLA), said PPTV uploaded the TV ser...

industry IPR: Copycat shops tap brand recognition

Qiao LAB — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:28:44 +0100

NESTLING in a sleepy southern district of Kunming city in southwest China is a 10,000 square meter, four-story building that could make Swedish furniture giant Ikea uneasy.

11 Furniture, as the store is known, copies Ikea's blue and yellow color scheme, mock-up rooms, miniature pencils, signage and even its rocking chair ...

IPR China: 50 charged in fight against violation

Qiao LAB — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:41:04 +0100

NEARLY 50 suspects in 26 cases have been charged with intellectual property rights violation involving 22.48 million yuan (US$3.47 million) in recent weeks, prosecutors said yesterday.

Of the 26 cases, 16 were related to selling counterfeits, and five cases involved more than 1 million yuan.

The bigg...

IPR: China's software piracy rate declines

China Media LAB — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:57:46 +0100

China's software piracy rate dropped 2 percentage points from 2009 to 2010, but the commercial value of the illegitimate software last year was up by 1.55 percent, to 130.94 billion yuan ($20.1 billion), a new survey shows.

The survey by Internet research firm Chinalabs said th...

IPR: China has detected more than 100,000 cases involving violation of intellectual property

China Media LAB — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:44:45 +0100

China has detected more than 100,000 cases involving violation of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the past five months, Vice-premier Wang Qishan said at a national conference in Qingdao on Friday.

While praising the results so far, Wang ordered government departments across the country to continue their efforts by focusing on key markets and fields, such as agricultural products, food and pharmaceuticals.

Applications for trademark registration in China increased 25.4 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier and will hit a record high this year, said a government official on Monday.

China had 4.885 million effective registered trademarks by the end of March and is estimated to have 8 million at the end of 2015, said Fu Shuangjian, deputy director of the State Administration of Industry and Commerce.

Investigations of a copyright fight between more than 40 Chinese writers and Baidu, China's largest search engine, are underway, an official with China's copyright watchdog group said Thursday.

Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration, said during a press conference that the search engine showed a "...

IPR: Ericsson to sue ZTE over patent breaches: Report

Qiao LAB — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:09:37 +0100

Mobile equipment giant Ericcson will sue Chinese telecom firm ZTE after accusing it of infringing its patents, the Financial Times reported.

Ericcson has filed lawsuits against ZTE in the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany, saying the Chinese company has breached its patents relating to second- and third-generation wireless technologies known as GSM and WCDMA, the paper said late on Friday.

Ericcson, ...

IPR: China vows to boost trademark protection

China Media LAB — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:28:24 +0100

Overseas companies urged to report violations amid rising applications

China's top industry and commerce administrator has pledged that every effort will be made to protect trademarks registered by overseas firms amid a growing number of applications.

Zhou Bohua, minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), said the administration will boost its campaign ...

IPR: China's search giant Baidu in wrangle over copyright theft

China Media LAB — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:26:59 +0100

Baidu, China's search engine giant, was blamed Tuesday by Chinese writers for participating in copyright violations, since the website offers free online excerpts of unauthorized stories and books.

On March 15, which is World Consumer Rights Day, more than 40 writers said in an open letter that Baidu stole their work and infri...

Huawei wins US court order on IPR

Qiao LAB — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:19:00 +0100

HUAWEI Technologies Co has won a United States court order to ban Motorola disclosing its intellectual property rights to Nokia Siemens Networks which hopes to buy the American firm's network business, the Shenzhen-based firm said yesterday.

In Chicago, US District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman said...

Chinese Download website faces shutdown

China Media LAB — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:27:00 +0100

Many Chinese netizens began complaining on Monday after discovering free download links for their favorite music were suddenly no longer available on a popular online site.

Verycd.com, a leading Chinese website offering free movie and music downloads - most deemed unauthorized - on Saturday removed all of its music download links and posted a note saying the move was done "to meet copyright owners' requests".

Chinese netizens enjoying free online reading might soon be paying for literary works as two pillars of China's Internet world appear to make up in a row over piracy.

Online publisher Shanda Literature Corporation is hoping that a pledge by search giant Baidu to resolve complaints that it "connives" in copyright violations cou...

iPad trademark lawsuit looms

Qiao LAB — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:08:47 +0100

Shareholder of Chinese tech firm claims rights to product's name

US technology giant Apple Inc may face a lawsuit in China because a domestic computer screen maker claims it has the rights to the iPad name in the country.

Proview International, a Hong Kong-based technology company, registered the iPad trademark in 2001 and still ...

IPR: Examiners go on site for company consultation

Qiao LAB — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:19:14 +0100

The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) began stationing examiners at company offices in the Zhongguancun area in Beijing in late August to help with documentation for patent applications.

SIPO patent examiners, working on a "practice basis", are assisting with paperwork and consulting on the spot.

The Zhongguancun area is home to nearly 20,000 high-tech companies and research institutions. The fi...