Auto technician Li Xuelin never dreamed of dismantling his boss' Mercedes Benz S300. But one day, that's exactly what the boss ordered Li and a half-dozen colleagues to do. It wasn't easy. At first, the technicians just stood beside the shiny black car, daring not to touch it. But eventually their boss and BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu broke the stalemate.
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"Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Windows XP in China after a court ruled that certain fonts in the operating system infringe on a Chinese firm's intellectual property." In other news, somebody in China actually recognizes the concept of intellectual property rights. Microsoft as the offender, +2 Irony.
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Let's just admit it: the iPhone will never officially come to China. The problem now? Hanwang Technologies registered the i-phone trademark in 2004 - it became effective in 2006. Ah the cruel ironies of Chinese copyright law.
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Or is it just an imitator of that media giant, albeit a rather charmingly clumsy one? We're not sure what to think. Why would a major Chinese media outlet with a vast budget resort to naked borrowing-without-asking? It becomes even more curious when one realizes that said organization appears to possess a large staff of trained English-language content providers.
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Yesterday evening I flipped on the television and saw an infomercial for what I thought at first was an iPhone. A male and female host went through the different functions of the phone that looked identical to the iPhone, but when they flipped the phone over to the backside I noticed that the Apple logo looked slightly different from what I recalled.
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Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of the State Council, wrote an editorial for the WSJ entitled, “No More Chinese Knock-Offs”. It followed pretty closely after the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) released its 5 year IPR protection plan. This is really big talk. Is it actually going to happen?
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peer-see calls the alleged IP violations at Beijing's knock-off Disneyland bogus.
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For the most part, the news in China about IPR protection is bad news. There are copies of DVDs everywhere, LV bags are sold in bulk, and fake pharmaceuticals are a real concern for the government.
But the news isn’t all bad. In fact, while conducting a 20 city survey on manufacturing we decided to add a simple question:
Are there any specific cases where IPR suits have been filed, and what was the outcome?
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