the 82nd Issue: PLA, game company make virtual trainer 'Mission of Honor'-China Intellectual Property Magazine

· PLA, game company make virtual trainer 'Mission of Honor'
While video games like "America's Army" have been used in military training for years abroad, China's army has lacked a proprietary training tool tailored to its requirements. The need has now been met by the Nanjing command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) working in conjunction with Wuxi Giant Interactive Group Inc to produce the new video trainer "Mission of Honor". More

· "Point Break" stage parody subject of lawsuit

NEW YORK – If you're staging a theatrical adaptation of the 1991 film "Point Break" and can't get Keanu Reeves to play a federal agent who goes undercover as a surfer, what do you do? The answer is partly the subject of a lawsuit. More

·Seeds of innovation
Six years ago, Dutch floriculture company Anton Verbeek New Roses International first sold its rose variety "Attracta" to Kunming Hai Yu Gardening Co Ltd, charging 0.8 euro for each seedling as royalty. Compared with the average seedling price of 0.4 to 0.5 yuan (0.04-0.05 euros) for common varieties, the royalty seemed very high. More

· The 2nd China Patent Counsel Conference 2011
· Tianjin: 3,000 student inventions
· Police arrest 15 in crackdown on counterfeit Viagra in Guangzhou
· Hundreds arrested in China for making, selling fake medicine
· Shanghai conducted special IP enforcement campaigns
· A symposium on IPR talents cultivation held in Beijing
· US patent reform has global implications
· Lectures on IP strategy held in Beijing
· Guangdong: Prison for pirate Blackberrys
· Taiwan: More cross-Straits trademarks
· Jinan modernizes industrial development

· Patent Auctions “On and Off the Stage” Issue 42, By Anne Zhang, China IP,[Patent]

"Bid card No. 006, 1.2 million Yuan. Next bid is 1.3 million Yuan, anyone? 1.2 million Yuan, going once, twice, third time. Sold!” The hammer fell and the auction was a success. Seemingly, it was not much different from other auctions, but when it came to the objects of the auction – patents – it was certainly a historic auction. More

· Unitalen Services for the Patent Auction Issue 42, By Kevin Nie, China IP,[Patent]

During the “First Patent Auction by the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences”, Beijing Unitalen Attorneys at Law (Unitalen), one of the organizers of the event, played a particularly eye-catching role. More