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May 24, 2013
Traditional forms of intellectual property are key to maintaining a competitive edge, but there are instances where trade secret protection may result in stronger and longer lasting protection
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April 24, 2013
Data published by IP Australia shows increasing activity from China and the Asia-Pacific region
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April 19, 2013
A former official who helped draft the second and third revisions of the Chinese Patent Law has said that proposals to revise the law a fourth time include some “potentially problematic” changes
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April 02, 2013
In a rare example of Chinese-Chinese litigation in Europe, telecoms company ZTE has prevailed over its rival Huawei in a patent dispute in Paris
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March 21, 2013
According to Dan Prud’homme of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, government officials are taking steps to improve patent quality in China
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March 05, 2013
Guilian Wang is deputy director of the first appeal division for optical and electrical technology within SIPO’s Patent Re-examination Board. She tells Emma Barraclough about re-examinations, targets and exercising in the office
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February 28, 2013
A draft revision to China’s patent examination guidelines seeks to curb grants of obviously deficient utility model and design patents, but challenges still remain
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February 06, 2013
Harmonisation of procedures, improving consistency, creating an IP marketplace and dealing with patent trolls: these were among the key challenges identified by senior IP officials at a discussion last week
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February 06, 2013
The patent rankings of the 2013 IP Survey have been released, with mergers, splits and hires leading to changes in the Europe and Asia tables
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February 01, 2013
Chinese telecoms firm Huawei is set to complain to the US antitrust watchdog the FTC about InterDigital’s patent practices
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December 18, 2012
Managing IP’s editors have scanned the trillions of words written on IP in the past year, and selected their favourite 25 articles from publications such as Fortune, BusinessWeek and the Economist as well as IP blogs and of course Managing IP itself. We’ve also included some infographics, pictures and video
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December 11, 2012
Yan Sheng, the head of Intellectual Ventures’ Greater China operations, has defended the company against critics who accuse it of being a patent troll
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December 07, 2012
IP owners should be wary of anti-monopoly concerns when doing business in China, Baker & McKenzie partner Clara Ingen-Housz warned this week
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December 06, 2012
The European Patent Office (EPO) and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO) launched a Chinese-English component of the EPO’s free automatic translation service called Patent Translate today
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November 16, 2012
Xi Jinping this week took over as China’s top leader after becoming general-secretary of the country’s communist party. But the leadership shake-up has seen a series of promotions that could affect the way that China handles the issue of intellectual property
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November 15, 2012
While IP is an increasingly sought-after commodity, as emphasized by the gaudy $4.5 billion price tag from the Nortel patent auction, more work needs to be done before efficient IP markets become a reality
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November 01, 2012
Next Tuesday’s US presidential election could mean big changes for the USPTO and IP policies. Managing IP examines what a Mitt Romney administration might look like for IP
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October 23, 2012
How would courts in Germany, South Korea, China, Japan and the US rule in FRAND cases? Leading judges from each jurisdiction explained what they would do in a mock trial at the AIPPI Congress
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October 12, 2012
Amendments to China’s Civil Procedure Code will give litigants greater flexibility to choose experts and more ways of using expert opinions
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October 11, 2012
Interview: Peter Cheung, the director of Hong Kong’s Intellectual Property Department, argues that the city is ideally positioned to become the centre for international IP trading