the 44th Issue: Silk Market to customers: Fight fakes!-China Intellectual Property Magazine

BEIJING - Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp (BAIC), the Chinese partner of Daimler AG and Hyundai Motor Corp, plans to launch more than 20 passenger vehicle models under its own brand by 2014, mainly based on acquired core technologies from Swedish brand Saab.More

·Silk Market to customers: Fight fakes!
Silk Street Market was handing out 20-yuan ($2.9) discount coupons to foreign customers Sunday ahead of World Intellectual Property Day, encouraging them to buy special Chinese and authentic brand products. Some 5,000 vouchers were handed to foreigners, according to Hu Wenli, deputy general manager of the Beijing Silk Street Company.More

·Court rules against Shaolin Temple in trademark suit
The Intermediate People's Court of Beijing ruled that the China Songshan Shaolin Temple cannot use the "Shaolin Medicine" trademark for its products such as instant noodles on April 26, 2010. Earlier, the Trademark Appeal Board under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) rejected the Shaolin Temple's application for the "Shaolin Medicine" trademark for its products.More

·SIPO Commissioner: China will provide support for World Expo IPR protection

Commissioner of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) Tian Lipu said in Beijing on April 26, at the incoming World Expo, Chinese Government will provide effective IPR protection for the innovative achievements of all other countries in the world. Base on what Tian Lipu said, IPR is an activator in inspiring innovation as well as a guardian in maintaining the sound development of innovation.More

·China's IP Protection Action Plan 2010 Issued and Implemented
·China's IPR Protection Progress Encourages World: WIPO

·Recent IPR Events
·China opens intellectual property rights website
·Angel Bird has trial flight in Nanjing
·'Common challenges require global cooperation'
·China hears 37,002 trademark cases in 2009
·Trademark-related cases increased
·Huaqi sues HP and Toshiba over USB storage patents

·Beijing: Internet domain name approved
·"FUJI" Triggers the Trademark Slugfest
·Taobao combats piracy together with 27 publishing houses
·NCAC to capture 17 kinds of pirated products

·Beijing: trademark infringements account for 40% of IP cases
·'Tomato Garden' case in Supreme Court's report

China IP Articles

·Copyright Protection Confusions in the Digital Age Issue 35 By Kevin Nie, China ip,[Copyright]
These days, Xu Guixiang stays in an army unit in Henan province, experiencing military life, as he usually does, to collect materials for his new book. Xu was the winner of the 6^th Mao Dun Literature Award for his novel The Sky of the History, which has been adapted to a TV play and enjoys hot broadcasting ratings.More

·Intellectual Property Lurking Behind the Growth Enterprise Market Issue 35 By Anne Zhang, China IP,[Patent]
Since the official opening on September 30, 2009, the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) has ridden through the bumpy waters in a short period of time, leaving most people dizzy. Such fluctuations will possibly replay intermittently in the future, which, from a certain perspective, brings to the surface the unique intellectual property risks lurking behind the enormous returns in the expansion of the GEM.More