Asia
01 March 2009
• WTO report deals blow to US The WTO's panel report in the US-China IP case has confirmed that the USTR lost on the key issue of whether China's thresholds for criminal IP enforcement are too high. The 147-page report, published on January 26, was hailed by Acting US Trade Representative Peter Allegier as "an important victory" but he admitted disappointment over the section on China's criminal enforcement. The findings of the report are the same as those of a preliminary report that was leaked last October.
The USTR won on the first complaint, with the panel stating that China's policy of denying copyright protection to works that failed censorship review breached the Berne Convention and Article 41.1 of TRIPs. The panel gave a mixed verdict on the question of China's disposal of infringing goods, finding that China infringed TRIPs in one area but stating that the verdict...
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