At the HK/EU Expert Conference on cooperation in protecting and developing IP and brands at the beginning of this month, Peter Cheung, director of Intellectual Property Department (IPD) of Hong K...
Professor David Llewelyn’s latest presentation did not miss to resonate with a scholarly audience. The earlier presentations IP Dragon attended included the highly relevant topic such as ...
85 percent?!. If only the other IP infringing countries could sue Chinafor anti-competitive behaviour… For the statistically inclined, Commisioner Algirdas Šemeta, responsible for customs of...
Two trends can be abstracted from the 2010 report of the Austrian Federal Finance Ministry to the National Council about the application of Council Regulation (EC) 1383/2003 of July, 22 2003, c...
The People’s Daily reports that in 2010 China filed 6,552 invention patent applications at the USPTO, 2,049 at the European Patent Office, 1,001 at the Japan Patent Office and 496 at the Korean...
http://www.ipdragon.org/2011/03/23/chinas-global-patent-docket/
New Europe reports about EU firms’ enthusiasm about China’s market prospects and their concern about the execution of the IPR laws in China.” “China’s intellectual property laws are not...
Law is often walking a few steps behind the developments in society. I propose the term “law lag”, whereby I apply the “cultural lag” concept developed by Thorstein Veblen to law. Of cour...
Yesterday the European Commission Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) published the ‘Report on EU Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. Results at the Europ...
Guest article by Mikołaj Rogowski Dragons Nightmare, an article from the last month’s edition of The Economist drew a rather pessimistic picture of the European Union – China relations lands...
http://www.ipdragon.org/2009/05/18/grim-audits-of-eu-china-relations-ipr-to-the-rescue/
Medio December 2008 IP Dragon wrote about the controversial genesis of the China-less Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by Japan and the US (joined by Australia, Canada, the European Uni...
http://www.ipdragon.org/2009/04/09/china-and-acta-why-is-the-problem-not-made-part-of-the-solution/