Rouse: IP China Express 340

" IP in China, dusk or dawn?"
Photo: Danny Friedmann

In the 340th IP China Express Rouse, the international IP business selected the following news items:

- Rubber products manufacturer Freudenberg victorious in a trademark conflict that has been going on since 2002. Finally the Trademark Appeal Board rejected the Chinese firm that wanted to register the same Freudenberg trademark.
-  Liu Binjie, head of the General Administration of Press and Publication, part of the National Copyright Administration, " with the rapid development and wide application of high technology (especially digital technology and network technology), the system of Copyright Law has faced formidable challenges" , therefore July 13, 2011, China has started to prepare its third amendment of its copyright law.
- Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court decided that Procter & Gamble's use ‘飘柔’ (Rejoice) in the Founder Qian typeface did not infringe Founder's copyright. Selling the software to Procter & Gamble implied consent that they could use it.
- Although Beijing-Shanghai High Speed ​​Rail was using technology imported from both the East Japan Railway Co. Ltd. and Kawasaki, the technology that it was seeking to patent was innovative. Therefore since 2009, China North Vehicle Group and China Academy of Railway Sciences have begun applying for patents abroad.
- Rouse also gives a summary of the 2006-2010 White Paper on Intellectual Property cases involving foreign parties published by Shanghai Second Intermediate People’s Court. Read IP Dragon's May 17, 2011 article about it here.

Read the Rouse's IP China Express here.

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All Clichés But Still True: Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement in China Leaves Room For Improvement

France24 reports in a 2 minutes 51 seconds video (from April 2008) about the rampant violations of IPR in China and the insufficient measures to tackle the problem. One big déjà vu all over again...

We see the familiar in this short video:

• the inevitability of a visual spectacle of destruction of counterfeit DVDs;
• a Chinese official determined to enforce IPRs (Mr Lin Binjie, Deputy Director, National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Work Group);
• Silk Street Market and some mini-interviews with pedestrians about fake products;
• An IPR right holder, in this case Ms Fang Fang, Chief Representative of luxury goods producer Pierre Cardin China tells that she is called "tout les temps" by licensees that have found a counterfeiter and it is operating. Pierre Carin is then sending a legal team. Result: counterfeiting stops there, but the counterfeiters set up shop somewhere else;
• James Zimmerman, Chairman American Chamber of Commerce in China says that intellectual property is not only important for foreigners but for Chinese in China as well;
• then more images of hawkers and markets with counterfeit products emerge.

That was April 2008, Pre-Olympic Games. However, the question is whether the level of intellectual property enforcement is still as high in Beijing after the Olympic Games, let alone in China, because of the financial crisis.

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