the 25th Issue: Made in China, made in world-China Intellectual Property Magazine

morning exerciser is bending over and tying the shoes marked with “made in China, combined with American technology”; a family is having breakfast, and the refrigerator beside them is marked with “made in China, amalgamated with French fashion”; two fashionable girls is walking on the street, with MP3 annotated by “made in China, supported by Silicon Valley software”…More

·Official calls for innovation to copy with financial crisis
World IPR Indicators 2009 released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) showed that China's influence in IP cause is increasingly spreading in the world. The indicator says that between 1995 and 2007, fillings in China grew by 23.9% a year, which is far above the growth rate of filings at the European Patent Office (EPO) and in the United States.More

·Negotiations between Chinese writers and Google at standstill

On Nov 20, Erik Hartmann, head of Google Book Search Strategic Partnership Development for Southeast Asia, came to China for the second round of talks with China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS). The dispute is over copyright issues of books being scanned and made available on Google’s site. The result, however, was not satisfactory. There is still a long way to go.More

·China ranks the first in chemistry patent applications in the world
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the global expert on chemical information, reports that China's patent office is now the world's leading producer of patent invention applications in chemistry. China trailed Japan's patent office, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for more than a decade, but passed the USPTO in 2005, WIPO in 2006, and exceeded Japan for the first time on a monthly basis in 2008.More

·Chinese Premier: IP is the competitive core for modern enterprises
·Domain name of ".中国"expected to be visited globally soon
·China brings more influences in IP rights
·China urges EU to relax export control over high-tech products
·Geely says Volvo will retain IPR in purchase deal
·Patent investment boosts province
·Shanghai holds symposium for IP office directors
·Bayer CropScience wins patent case in Jiangsu
·SAIC issues work plan for trademark to reinforce protection

China IP Articles

·Focusing on Section 337 Investigations in the Context of the Financial Crisis. issue 32 By Harry Yang and Sara Yan Photo by Zhou Yi, China IP,[Unfair Competition]
Under Section 337 of the United States Tariff Act of 1930, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) shall institute an investigation of certain import-related complaints and render determinations. Such investigations are called Section 337 investigations, most of which involve IP issues. From 2002 to 2007, Chinese enterprises ranked first in terms of the number of complaints being investigated.More

·A Pirated “Goat” Issue 32,By Zhou Yi, China IP,[Copyright]
“The very first link to the Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf stuffed toys you gave me was fake. I remember the company clearly. They said they could provide non-counterfeit toys, but I didn’t hear from them again. I surfed the pages, and found that 20% of the products on the first and second pages were unlicensed. When will taobao.com pay some attention to us?” More