the 80th Issue: Chinese telecom firms fight for rights-China Intellectual Property

· Taobao talks tough about counterfeits
China's largest online retail site Taobao.com said it will strengthen efforts to examine goods sold on its portal to further fight online counterfeits. The sale of fake goods is a headache for Taobao, which has more than 70 percent of China's online shopping market. More

· “Xidan Girl” Trademark Traps in Preemptive Registration

Xidan Girl, a national favorite grassroots singer, is rumored to have filed an objection against her former employer at the Trademark Appeal Board of State Administration for Industry & Commerce. At the beginning of 2009, Ren Yueli, a subway singer in Beijing commercial district- Xidan, rose to fame overnight after a video of her singing was posted on the Internet. More

· Chinese telecom firms fight for rights
Chinese telecom companies that have expanded into overseas markets are taking an increasingly tough line in defending their intellectual property rights (IPR) and fighting off the IPR claims of overseas rivals. The latest case involves Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's second-largest telecom equipment maker, which took legal action in a US district court in January against Motorola Solution Inc. More

· The 2nd China Patent Counsel Conference 2011
· SIPO briefs multinationals
· Nation's largest patent database goes online
· ZTE steps up legal fightback against Huawei
· Google loses copyright appeal in Belgian news aggregation case
· Agricultural Intellectual Property Witness Dramatic Increase
· China Officially Initiated Intelligent Patent Search and Service System
· China, US to sort out differences over innovation
· Music Copyright Owners Call for a New Way out to Crack down on Copyright Problems
· China Written Works Copyright Society Appeals for Administrative Penalty Against Baidu
· China may face tougher U.S. IPR policies
· Chinese domestic enterprises have a long way to go in IPR protection
· China’s Mobile Phone Businesses Allied to Overcome Patent Barriers

· Liao Zhide,The Eye of the Beholder of TACP Issue 41, By Anne Zhang, China IP,[Copyright]

At first sight, Mr. Liao appears to be thin with white hair, and one cannot imagine that he is a theater and multiplex mogul in Taiwan. However, when approaching him, you will find that his vigor is not less than that of a youth, and seldom does he slow down, always holding a mobile phone rapidly handling the business. More

· The Logic of Claims for Astronomically Huge Compensation Issue 41, By Yuan Zhenfu, Deputy Director Shanghai Intellectual Property Academy,[Patent]

Astronomical compensation is not new in foreign countries. In recent years, massive awards and enormous claims have been prevalent in the United States. In 2006, US NTP, Inc. and Canadian RIM settled a patent infringement dispute over Blackberry, and RIM paid NTP an ominous USD 612.5 million. In January 2010, US software company Cybersitter claimed that the green filtering software “Green Dam - Youth Escort” developed by China's Internet filtering companies was in serious violation of its intellectual property (IP) rights and filed with a federal court in Los Angeles. More