the 35th Issue: Chinese city becomes WIPO's pilot city for copyright protection-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·Chinese city becomes WIPO's pilot city for copyright protection

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is expected to publish a copyright protection report on home textile by east China's Nantong City before the end of March, said a senior intellectual property official here on Wednesday. Xu Yiying, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Intellectual Property Bureau, said this would be the first time that WIPO published an industry report to showcase a regional copyright protection example.More

·Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement

REDMOND, WASH. - Microsoft Corp. announced in a press release that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com Inc. The agreement provides each company with access to the other's patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon's popular e-reading device, Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon's proprietary software components, and Amazon's use of Linux-based servers.More

·General Motors shutting down Hummer
CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- General Motors Co. has started shutting down Hummer, after a proposed deal to sell the rugged brand to a Chinese company collapsed, a senior company official said on Wednesday in Detroit. The decision is the latest setback in GM's attempts to unload unwanted brands and alleviate slumping sales as it focuses on Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac.More

·IPR2 Project Steering Committee meeting 2010, Beijing, tentative 8 March 2010
IPR2 meets very regularly with its co-operation partners on a bilateral basis throughout the year. The PSC is the forum in which all Beneficiaries will have the opportunity to formally endorse the new Annual Work Plan for the third year of the Project's implementation.More

·Infineon Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit
·Well-known Beijing market's manager arrested in selling fake LV bags
·ZTE applies for more than 1,700 pieces of LTE/SAE patents last year
·Conba claims ￥300, 000's compensation for unsuitable use of trademark
·Angang has the first exclusive technical trademark

·Beijing to support IPOs in districts and counties with "hand in hand plan"
·Patent model enterprise strengthens developing licensed products of World Expo
·Agilent Technologies Wins HPLC Columns Trade Secrets Case

·10 Gov. Depts. issue policy to encourage independent IPR products
·Dragon Well Tea now trademarked

·Storage Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance founded

China IP Articles

·Intel’s Breakthrough under the Financial Crisis Issue 34 By Jody Lu and Tommy Zhang, China IP,[Comprehensive Reports]
As the first large manufacturing enterprise set up as early as in 1994 in Pudong Waigaoqiao Bonded Zone, Intel Shanghai Pudong Packaging & Testing Factory, the once splendid historic monument for the development of scientific and technological industries in the Pudong Area and even the entire Yangtze River Delta region, was suddenly declared to be closed within one year from February 5, 2009.More

·How to Prove Who Hosts the Infringing Website Issue 34 By Pei Guihua and Dai Jing,[Internet & Domain]
Beijing Rosat Film & TV Production Co., Ltd., plaintiff and copyright holder of Baby in Love, the movie involved in the case, filed a claim in July 2007, that the defendant, China Unicom Baicheng Branch, had unlawfully uploaded the movie to its website, without permission, and had infringed on the plaintiff’s right of dissemination of internet information. Defendant contends that it does not host the website and the website shows nothing of it. For this reason, Defendant claims it is not responsible for the infringement and no liabilities should incur.More

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