The world’s most popular search engine has been dragged into what appears to be an escalating row between China and the United States on Internet controls.
Beijing yesterday stepped up accusations that Google is spreading obscene content over the Internet, a day after US officials urged Beijing to abandon plans for the installation of a controversial [...]
Govt steps up heat on Google
Jun 28
Recently, the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination received the last batch of trademark registration certificates for Shanghai Expo emblem, which indicates the trademark registration work for the emblem has been totally finished in China Mainland. The Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination has acquired 45 trademark registration certificates for the emblem which cover all [...]
The Chinese government honored 30 experienced herbal doctors in Beijing Friday for the first time for their contribution to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
The doctors were given the title “TCM Master” jointly by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
“The baton is [...]
The Sino-UK Seminar on the Usage of the China-UK IPR Systems Held in Guangzhou, Li Yuguang Present
Jun 18
On July 4th, the Sino-UK Seminar to Promote and Encourage the Use and Understanding of the China-UK IPR systems was held in Guangzhou. The seminar was jointly hosted by SIPO and UK-IPO, taken charge by Guangdong IP Administration. SIPO Deputy Director Li Yuguang, UK-IPO Director Ian Flectcher, Deputy Secretary General Jiang Haiyan from Guangdong Provincial [...]
Sichuan Baijia Food Company, one of the largest instant noodle manufacturers in China, has filed a lawsuit against OKAI Import Export GmbH with the Munich District Court in Germany, asking the court to cancel OKAI’s trademark application of Baijia trademark and return the trademark to Baijia Food.
OKAI, a Germany-based department store run by a Chinese-German, [...]
Apple is among 15 companies that have been slapped with a lawsuit by Actus. The company claims the defendants infringed on four of its patents.
The lawsuit, filed on May 26 in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, describes a method of using electronic tokens for e-commerce that Actus says the companies infringed on with [...]
In recent years, China’s independent research and development capability in the field of gene has been significantly enhanced. According to statistics, in past five years, the average increase rate of domestic gene invention patent applications received by SIPO is 26.4%, and the foreign one is 17.8%.
In 2008, 4,532 pieces of patent application of this kind [...]
