The prosperity of the audio cultural industry is inseparable from the robust protection of audio copyrights and an environment that respects the creation of audio content and is conducive to the dissemination of audio content. Tong Gang delivered a speech to the guests from multi-dimensional and multi-perspective of academic, legal, policy, management, innovation, and practice, contributing to the healthy and sustainable development of the audio copyright industry.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a definitive force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial change, and has become the focus of international competition and industrial policy efforts in various countries. Driven by technological innovation, AI has been deeply integrated with all walks of life, propelling high-quality development and reshaping the world economy and human society.
The unfair competition acts regulated by the principle provisions of Article 2 of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law shall, first of all, not among the unfair competition acts or infringement acts of typical intellectual property rights explicitly enumerated in the law; second, they should be competitive acts leading to harm to the competitive interests of other operators.
If it is impossible to prove that public platform data has been captured through normal channels, the act of capturing the public data also constitutes unfair competition.
Through the effective regulation of new types of unfair competition acts under the context of internet competition environment, this case encourages operators to operate in good faith, maintain the normal competition order in the internet market, promote the healthy, orderly and standardized development of the internet video industry, which provides important regulatory guidelines for the rapidly developing internet industry in China.
When an internet rushing buy service uses technical means to provide users of the target platform with an unfair rushing buy advantage, which destroys the established rushing buy rules of the target platform and deliberately bypasses its regulatory measures, causing serious damage to the user stickiness and business environment of the target platform, it shall be deemed to have constituted unfair competition.
This case involves the determination of commercial disparagement committed by employees of a company through their personal social media accounts. WeChat Moments has now become an important channel for information dissemination, and a considerable number of operators have used WeChat Moments as a marketing place to release promotional content.
Established in 1995, Watson & Band is one of the oldest law firms in Shanghai and even in East China to be involved in the intellectual property business, also one of China’s oldest intellectual property service providers with the qualifications of foreign-related patent agency. Today, Watson & Band has developed into an integrated legal and IP services provider that is represented primarily by Watson & Band Law Offices and Watson & Band Intellectual Property Agent Ltd.
Recently, Mr.Davide Luigi Petraz and Mr.Daniele Giovanni Petraz, two managing partners of GLP, were invited to share with us their views on the latest developments of intellectual property in Italy and Europe, as well as the secrets of GLP's success over the past 55 years.
From the perspective of the legislative purpose, the purposes of formulating the patent law are the same in all countries in the world, and with the continuous development of globalization and deepening international cooperation, international patent procedures such as the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) have emerged accordingly. However, there still exist subtle differences in many provisions of the patent law of each country depending on their actual situations.
Article 25 of the Patent Law provides for six types of subject matters for which no patent right should be granted. No matter how practical, novel or inventive they are, specific results covered by such subject matters are excluded from patent protection. Nevertheless, the determination of ineligible subject matters does not require evidence to aid comparison as in the case of commenting on novelty or inventiveness, which can be concluded directly and merely by deductive reasoning.
it is of great significance to clarify the ideas of handling intellectual property technical investigation cases, fully utilize the opinions and information in patent examination and authorization to improve technical investigation opinions, and deal with the contradiction between a large number of technical investigation cases and little personnel, so as to unify review and confirmation of rights and judicial judgment standards and improve the quality and efficiency of intellectual property trials.
The correct trial of this case plays a vital role in unifying adjudication standards of former employees' using the original company's customer information to infringe on trade secrets, improving the rules of evidence application, hearing civil cases of infringement of trade secrets in a fair manner in accordance with the law, and creating a legalized business environment.
Zeeger Vink, IP director of MF Brands Group, is the INTA 2022 President. In this role, he is Chair of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. In an interview with China IP, Mr. Vink shares his insight on trademarks and brands, provides practical advice to Chinese members on how to participate in and benefit from the INTA community. INTA Annual Meeting Live+ officially began on April 30, took place in person in Washington, D.C., and virtual.
INTA's 2022 Annual Meeting Live+ has been held in Washington, D.C., as a combined physical + virtual event from April 30 to May 4. The choice of a hybrid format reflects the association's response to the easing of COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, with the transition from its 143rd Annual Meeting Virtual+ to the 144th Annual Meeting Live+. As INTA's media partner in China since 2014, on February 28 China IP interviewed INTA CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo.
The 2022 INTA Annual Meeting will be held in Washington DC as a physical event with virtual components from April 30 to May 4. With 6,500 organizations from 185 countries comprising INTA’s membership, its annual meeting has been recognized as the world’s largest IP event. As INTA’s media partner in China since 2014, China IP on February 28 interviewed INTA CEO Etienne Sanz de Acedo.