Yamaha Motors recently won the highest damages ever awarded to a foreign company for trade mark infringement in China when China’s Supreme Court ordered domestic motorcycle Read the rest of this entry »
Yamaha wins Record Trademark Infringment Damages in China
June 21, 2007
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Another Croc bites back
June 5, 2007Three Chinese companies have been ordered to pay French clothing company Lacoste 760,000 yuan (approx. $98,700 US) in damages for trademark infringement. The award, by a Beijing court follows a suit Read the rest of this entry »
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Sotheby’s wins trademark suit against Chinese Companies Using Their Name
May 24, 2007In April, Sotheby’s, the London based Auction House, sued three Hong Kong-registered companies that used the name “Su Fu Bi,” written with the same Chinese characters Sotheby’s uses to write its name in Chinese.The three businesses are straw Read the rest of this entry »
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Israel Remains on the U.S. “Priority Watch List” – Allegedly for Copyright Piracy
May 1, 2007The US published their “Special 301 Report” on Monday, targeting 12 Countries including Israel for copyright piracy monitoring.
Officially, the United States claims that the countries on the “priority watch list” are there for failing to sufficiently protect American producers of music, movies and other copyrighted material from widespread copyright piracy, which the US contends costs American industry billions of dollars in lost sales annually.
“We must defend ideas, inventions and creativity from rip-off artists and thieves,”
said U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab in a statement accompanying the report.
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The US is to Bring China to the WTO for Arbitration on IP Rights
April 11, 2007U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab has announced that the United States will bring China to the World Trade Organization for dispute-settlement talks concerning intellectual property rights.
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Tate & Lyle Turns to US International Trade Commission Alleging Patent Infringement by Chinese Firms
April 11, 2007Tate & Lyle PLC, one of the world’s largest sugar producers, has a patent for the manufacturing process used to convert cane sugar into sucralose, a calorie-free sugar replacement marketed as Splenda(TM).the company has now Read the rest of this entry »
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China Joins WIPO Copyright and Performer’s Rights Treaties
March 25, 2007According to WIPO, the People’s Republic of China has acceded to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty and to the WIPO Copyright Treaty . Both treaties will enter into force in China on 9 June 2007.
China has a poor reputation for IP enforcement, but is trying to tidy up her image. Certainly things are better than they were. We wait to see whether copyright and performers rights will be enforced.
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