The 38th CNNIC Report shows that, of the online entertainment applications, online games rank only second to online music and online videos in terms of the number of users, up to 55.1%.
With the development of the over-entertainment industry, joint operation of films and games has become a general direction of the developing online gaming industry. Adaptation of popular fictions, fil
Recently, there are two popular types of game adaptation: one is the adaptation of novels, films and TV plays into games and the other is the adaptation of a game into another game. In the judicial pr
There were 171 listed game enterprises in China in 2015, of which the market value was 476 thousand billion Yuan, making China the biggest game market in the world. The concept of pan-entertainment ev
With the roaring trend of IP adaptation, there are recently more and more cases on adaptation disputes between literatures and online games. In these cases, obligees bring actions by reasons from infr
On October 3, Beijing time, the 56th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Commissioner of the Sta
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said it has tightened policies against copyright infringements and made it easier for brands to issue complaints and request removal of counterfeit items on its platforms.
The number of countries and regions joining the international system for trademark registration on the basis of the Madrid Convention and its Protocol, continues to grow.
The International Trademark Association (INTA), the Zhongguancun Federation of Social Organizations (ZFSO) and the Beijing Intellectual Property Protection Association (BIPPA) signed a cooperation agr
Zhang Jie, who specialized in material processing engineering in college, got interested in laws in his junior middle school times when he often read his father’s law books at home.
Goertek Inc., established in June, 2001 listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in May, 2008, has grown into a leading enterprise in China's electroacoustic industry and a global leader in the global mi
Currently the biological technology develops rapidly and more and more biology- related enterprises choose patents to protect their R&D results. With the global development of knowledge economy, the n
Just a year ago China introduced far-reaching amendments to its Advertising Law, updating the general legal framework and clarifying both advertiser obligations and non-compliance sanctions.
Digital network technology has changed the interest pattern among copyrighted content owners, communicators and users, and realized the conversion from "printing copyright", "electronic copyright" to
Recently, many trademark registrants who have received the Notice on Providing Evidence for the Use of the Registered Trademark issued by the Trademark Office are very confused, "Why is my well- regis
In 2014, China became the largest market for online sales around the globe, with an online retail transaction size ranking No.1 in the world. In 2015, there were a total of 688 million Internet users
Article 1376 requires that the claims of a utility model application relate to a single utility model viz., it will no longer be possible to file a group of utility models in a single application.
On 1 July 2016, Patent Reexamination Board of State Intellectual Property Office declared invalid the patents for the utility model of two-wheeled electric vehicle (patent number: 201320128469.4) held
The 7th Patent Information Annual Conference of China (PIAC) took place in Beijing from September 19 to September 20, 2016, during which the China IP Magazine held a presentation of the Investigation
To explore intellectual property-related business, the sixth Business of Intellectual Property Asia (BIP Asia) Forum will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) on December