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Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year!  (Xin nian kuai le!)  May 2009 be one that is blessed and wonderful for all of you.  (especially for my regular readers!)
I also wanted to say thank you for those who voted for my blog in the China Blog Awards 2008.  While we didn’t win, we [...]

I didn’t think I’d be seeing any interesting resolution of the milk scandal from earlier this year that would be worth posting…  but lo and behold, Yahoo decided to post an
article (
h/t to China Digital Times) entitled “
Chinese Dairies to Compensate Melamine Victims“.  I’d seen news about the Sanlu trials, but didn’t think anything [...]

I just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!  (Sheng Dan Kuai Le for those of you in China…  I don’t have Chinese character capability on Wordpress or I’d use them)  Thank you for continuing to drop by my blog and comment, especially the regular readers.  I never expected that [...]

A long overdue weekend review.  So it seems like the great firewall is working again, and this time, its the New York Times that has some sort of technical glitches that won’t allow it to show up in China again.  From CNET
yesterday:
Chinese authorities have begun blocking access from mainland China to the Web site [...]

I figured I would announce it soon enough on the blog, but I have decided to break from law firm life for the time being.  I recently joined
TechSoup Global as an Eligibility Manager, which is doing domestic and international legal compliance on tax and non-profit/NGO issues.  (though I am also handling a fair amount [...]

Finally, part 3 of my series.  One way that plaintiffs often try to get their international copyright violations heard in U.S. courts is by alleging that a U.S. based defendant aided the infringement.  To my knowledge, there are two types of contributory infringment: vicarious and contributory.  I have not seen any cases on point within [...]

Yes, I realize that I haven’t posted much in the last few weeks….  but I promise that part 3 of my copyright infringement series will come very soon.  I haven’t had time to post it given the Holiday season rushing upon us.  (Happy belated Thanksgiving to all!)
That being said, I am thankful that my [...]

Having said what I did in my previous post, you may be wondering if there really is anything else to follow up.  My answer: of course there is!  (that’s why this is a 3 part series, and not a one shot deal)
What happens now when there is some sort of contract or written agreement that [...]

I’ve been wanting to do this series of posts for some time now.  In fact, I’ve been sitting on the materials for this for months…  as you can tell, I’d more or less taken a brief blogging hiatus, just posting stuff here and there.  I don’t believe I can return to the sort of posting [...]

It’s already late for many of my readers, that’s fine.  I should’ve posted earlier.
I think its already pretty obvious where I’ve stood on the McCain v. Obama issue.  I may well be a loser today, but I just can’t get over the rhetoric for Obama…  of course, Obama is a lawyer–and answers questions like one: [...]