International Law

ASK TongFang Donates RFID System to 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Posted on November 12, 2007
Tsinghua TongFang, the joint-venture of French RFID company ASK, will donate the whole RFID system to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee which including the RFID inlays, gate readers, software and service. Read more here. Head tip to counterfeit...

Troutman Sanders Adds IP Attorney Sebastian Hughes in HK

Posted on November 06, 2007
AsiaMedia sent me this press release:"Hong Kong, 6th November 2007 ? Global law firm Troutman Sanders LLP strengthened its intellectual property practice by adding well-known IP attorney Sebastian Hughes as a partner to its Asia team ? further evidence that the U...

Words Less Spoken about Copyright Piracy in China

Posted on October 29, 2007
Much ado about copyright piracy in China. Liu Baijia wrote about China's measures against copyright infringement in the article 'Taking action against piracy' for China Daily.Many familiar arguments can be read here: about on the one hand China's great speed of implementing IP legislation, where China needed only 20 years, other countries needed 100 years; and on the other that foreign countries need to be patient, because China has just begun in this field of enforcement...

TRIPs Amendment; China's Medicine For A New Pandemic?

Posted on October 29, 2007
It is good to be prepared for the worst. Zhu Zhe of the China Daily reports that last Sunday, during the 30th session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, China's legislature accepted an amendment to the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) to enhance access to medicines when dealing with public health emergencies, such as SARS and bird flu...

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