知识产权保护 - ipr

Groupe Danone’s latest move in the ongoing dispute over trademark infringements by Wahaha Group gets a new twist. The French dairy company has filed an appeal against the Chinese authority's ruling in favor of Hangzhou Wahaha Group 娃哈哈 in the latest round of the legal battle over trademark ownership….
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知识产权保护 - Xu Chao, deputy director of the National Copyright Administration's copyright management bureau, said at a press conference the government had promised harsher punishment in its newly-issued outline of the national intellectual property rights strategy. The outline clarifies special areas surrounding patents, trademarks, copyrights, and business secrets…..
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China's official Xinhua News Agency last week urged a German-language news website to stop infringement of its rights. The agency recently found a website called "Xinhua China Nachrichten" which is a privately owned website with German owners but claims to be China’s best friend….
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Chinese brands are flocking to the Korean market. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Monday, the number of Chinese trademark applications filed in Korea grew more than five times over the past five years from 220 in 2003 to 1,129 in 2007. The growth rate is nearly four times higher than that of [...]

Be it Aichi, Nara, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Yokohama, Nagoya or Kyoto – the names of Japanese prefectures and cities draw Chinese trademark wizards who have already registered 19 out of 47 in China. Naturally Japanese officials fear for their brands and increase efforts to protect their famous brand names. However further applications have already been filed and may be hard to turn back….
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