Perhaps one of the biggest news stories in the technology industry in the past year was the uncertain fate of TikTok, a music-video app that was developed by the Chinese…
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The Legal Considerations of Live-Stream Shopping
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…
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…