Live-streaming shopping platforms have become particularly popular in China, with many established shopping models investing in them and implementing live video and influencer marketing into their business models. Though live…
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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…
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China’s Bitter Medicine for Gilead: SIPO Cancels Viread Patent
Last August, China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) invalidated the core patent for Gilead Sciences‘ flagship drug Viread (as was reported by IPR Daily and a number of other news sources). This…
1st Guiding Case on Intellectual Property Now Available in English!
The re-posting of this blog is part of a cross-posting collaboration with the Stanford Law School China Guiding Cases Project. (more…)
Transplanting the Canadian UGC Exception to Hong Kong: Part 1
In July 2013, the Hong Kong government conducted a public consultation on the treatment of parody under the copyright regime. Building on two earlier consultations on digital copyright reform in…
Everything Old is New Again: Reframing the Cultural Explanation for Intellectual Property Infringement in China
Daniel Whalen won Canada’s IP Writing Challenge last year for his article, “Everything Old is New Again: Reframing the Cultural Explanation for Intellectual Property Infringement in China.” In anticipation for the…