the 144th Issue: Collaborations with Chinese companies – the importance of protecting your intellectual property-China Intellectual Property

·Collaborations with Chinese companies – the importance of protecting your intellectual property

In the past few years we have seen more and more Chinese companies investing in overseas companies. Whilst there are numerous reasons why Chinese companies are looking to invest in the West one common driver is innovation. Historically China has built up a reputation for large scale,... More

·Huawei and ZTE hit by US patent probe

The United States International Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it had launched a patent probe into Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp, the latest of a series of blows to Chinese telecom gear makers in the US market... More

·China struggles to attract EU's R&D capital

Despite China's long-term encouragement of foreign companies to set up more research-and-development facilities in the country, European companies' R&D investment in China remains low... More

· SURVEY ON GLOBAL IP SERVICE AGENCIES KICKS OFF

· "PARTS" BILL COULD STRIP DESIGN PATENT OWNERS OF RIGHTS IN VEHICLE REPAIR PARTS

· Microsoft prevails in court

· Nothing ventured, nothing gained

· Innovation in VAT 'boosts service sector'

· SIPO-English2009>News>International IP InformationU.S. Launches Probe into Wireless Electronic Devices for Patent Infringemen

· Invention patents held by every ten thousand residents in Guilin hit up to 1.39

· Teens in Shenyang gobble up icecream iPhones

· Samsung unveils new tablet to challenge iPad

· HP Goes Stealth with Palm-Based Gram Spin Off

· Apple accused of overstating damages in patent case against Samsung

· "Samsung Was Just Defending Itself" --- An Interview with Kim Ki, Chief IP Counsel of Samsung Mobile Display Issue 50, By Doris Li, China IP,[Patent]

In the "Era of Apple," the Samsung Group must be the biggest threat to Apple. Since smartphones and tablets have become new global trend-setters and focus of attention, virtually every player in the trade has their daggers-drawn... More

· New Generic Top Level Domains —An Opportunity or a Threat to Brand Owners Operating in China? Issue 50, By Jannik Skou Partner at Thomsen Trampedach,[Trademark]

Next year brand owners will need to decide if they want to protect and promote their brands by registering new domain names under one of the more than hundreds of new open domain name extensions such as .shop, .eco, .car, .software, .hotel, .ski, .med, .art or in extensions in non- Latin scripts such as ".公司" (Company in Chinese) or ".新闻" (News in Chinese). Like it or not, the structure of the domain name space as we know it today is about to change... More