the 76th Issue: China doubles copyright protection efforts, nabs communist history book pirates-China Intellectual Property Magazine

·Openness pledged in R&D funding
China's minister of science and technology made a promise on Saturday to foster research and development by opening up the competition for government funding. Wan Gang said the current system will be improved "to create an innovation-stimulating environment that features scientific democracy, academic freedom, scholastic vigor, open-mindedness and inclusiveness". More

·Yantai Special: Yantai zone uses its advantages to get skilled people
The Yantai high-tech industrial zone in Shandong province has an ambitious plan to attract high-caliber people from China and abroad to improve its work in research and technology. It reached an agreement with Beihang University's Science and Technology Park, a pioneer in attracting overseas students, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Mechanics. More

·China doubles copyright protection efforts, nabs communist history book pirates
China seized more than 14 million illegal publications, doubling last year's number, in the country's latest efforts to protect intellectual copyrights, according to figures revealed on Monday. More

·The 2nd China Patent Counsel Conference 2011
·BYD: 365 applications for invention patents granted
·ZTE files lawsuit over patent
·Shandong: Qingdao Customs seized IP infringing commodities worth 13.24 million yuan
·Trademarks amounted to 453 thousand in 12 provincial-level regions in Western China
·Deputy Mayor of Chongqing inspected the suboffice of the Patent Department of SIPO
·Shanghai to boost digital publishing industries
·Fifteen vice-provincial cities to jointly implement trademark strategies
·Shandong: Tai'an to struggle for national IPR demonstration city
·Shanxi Department of Culture organized IP lectures
·Guangdong to step up campaign to protect IPR
·USPTO official visits Tongji University

·Brand Crisis behind the Dispute of GOME Issue 40, By Aimee Wang, China IP,[Trademark]

GOME is China’s No. 1 electrical appliance retailer. A dispute arose between the major shareholder Huang Guangyu and the chairman of the board Chen Xiao recently, which brought about a sequence of problems to the company and attracted wide attention from the public. More

·Innovation Economy: Wealth Embedded in Ideas— An Interview with John Howkins, Father of Creative Industry Issue 40, By Sarah Luo, China IP,[Comprehensive Reports]

John Howkins, father of the creative industry, advocator of “copyright is the currency of the creative economy,” forerunner of digital media, and business and government consultant to more than 20 countries, once observed that creation was private subjective thinking, different from invention, which was objective, and a result of team work. More