The European Chamber puts special work groups in charge of the specific affairs on IP issues, as IP issues have always been of core concern of EUCCC and topics arousing continuous discussions.
In an unprecedented move, on June 30, 2011, a group of global companies including Apple and Microsoft paid $4.5 billion for the entire patent portfolio of the bankrupted Nortel Networks.
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld that a defendant seeking to overcome the presumption of validity of an issued US patent has to prove its invalidity by clear and convincing evidence.
The severity of the scandals shocked everyone within and beyond China.If the patent approvers work properly to screen off unhealthy food products from patent, they can avoid the bad consequences.
As China adopts the first-to-file principle in trademark registration, special rules need to be put in place to regulate circumstances where trademark applications are filed on the same day.
The way of information dissemination has been, and will be continuously changed by the rapidly developing Internet technology and the ever newer modes of network operation.
In cases the volume of credit has been exhausted with one financial intuition it makes sense to look for a financial vehicle that can be supported by a consortium of institutions and investors.
Document 4, also known as the “New Document 18”, continues and supersedes a Basket of Measures to Boost the Software and IC Industry,which was issued in 2000 and expired last year.
In terms of policy implementation, it states that industry associations should give full play to their advantages in resources, promote the software IP protection and resist all IPR violations.
The State Council’s Several Policies on Further Encouraging the Development of Software and Integrated Circuit Industries, is a continuation and substitution of the previous Document 18.
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