Serena Nath is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. After a lengthy 22-year trademark battle with Chinese businessman Fang Yuzhou, London-born shoe company…
Category: China
China’s Patent Policy: Pros, Cons, and an AI Solution
China has historically been a small player in regard to patent filing. As recently as a decade ago,[i] China’s patent office, SIPO, which serves a country with three times the…
IP Year in Review 2017 - A Year of Promises Made, Kept, and Abandoned
This past year marks a year where the Government of Canada engaged more than ever on the IP front. The Government of Canada’s announcement of a National IP Strategy was…
Branding Names: from Air Jordan to Linsanity and Trump Toilets
2016 was a winning year for Western trademarks in China. It produced an unprecedented number of decisions – two, to be exact – in which China won praise for protecting…
Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 3
In Parts I and II of this series of blog posts, I discussed the ongoing digital copyright reform in Hong Kong. Specifically, I called for the transplant of the Canadian UGC exception to…
Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 2
In Part I of this series of blog posts, I discussed a position paper I submitted to the Hong Kong government as part of its public consultation on the treatment of parody under the copyright regime.…