China has a “first-to-file” system for trademark protection, but the new Trademark Law which took effect as of 1 May 2014 for the first time provides for the prior right to...
According to statistics released by the Supreme People’s Court of China, in 2014, people’s courts at all levels received 116,528 IP cases at the first trial, including civil, administrative...
Patent pledge financing is one of the main forms of the transformation of the intellectual property, and great progress has been made in developing patent pledge financing since 2008 when patent...
Many companies face the challenge on how to develop a strategy on protecting and monetizing their IP assets. According to Professor Leif Edvinsson, the key pioneering contributor to both the theory...
The recent U.S. Supreme Court case of Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. (2013) was recently concluded by Supreme Court of the U.S., from which raised a new question: whether a farmer who...
On January 6, 2015 in Las Vegas, SuperD Co., Ltd. (“SuperD”) made quite a splash, after a decade of relentless efforts and dedication, with a full range of glasses-free 3D solutions...
This two-part article is intended to provide a brief overview of the trademark opposition procedure in the United States. Part I covered considerations for preparing and filing an opposition...
San Diego, located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California of U.S., is a quiet coastal city with comfortable climate and glorious beaches. It is one of the not-to-miss cities...
There is strong cooperation between the UK and China on trade marks. The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce (SAIC) signed...
This two-part article is intended to provide a brief overview of the trademark opposition procedure in the United States. Part I covers considerations for preparing and filing...
Over the years, in Chinese market of pastries and mooncakes, the Daoxiangcun (“稻香村”) brand and the related trademark litigations have been a dazzling and perplexing phenomenon...
Parallel importation is no simple foreign trade phenomenon, with multiple motivations, commingling benefits and harms to consumer interests, which should not be handled ...
The sophistication of modern marketing environment poses enormous challenges to brand owners, not only by counterfeiters, looks-like infringers, but ironically also by their business partners...
Sina Corporation (Sina), up and running for 15 years, has been a pioneer among Chinese Internet companies, almost going through all the changes of China’s Internet industry. The interviewee...
This is the success story of a government that, by facilitating the adoption of equitable trade standards for protecting intellectual property online managed to durably decrease counterfeiting...
These are highly competent and excellent patent attorneys in Israel. If you need attention to detail, 100% results on office actions, and good prices this is the one.
