I have to admit that one of the things I love about both China and Russia is that they take various international days seriously, that nobody even knows about in the United States. I suspect that is due to communism and/or its remnants. Anyway, as part of today’s World Intellectual Property Rights Day (how many… Continue Reading
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China IP. The Blog.
Posted in Recommended ReadingTime that I mention a really good and high-level blog that focuses on China IP. The blog is called China IPR and it is headed up by Mark Cohen, a law professor at Fordham Law School. It completely accurately describes itself as follows: ChinaIPR.com is published by Mark Allen Cohen, a Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham… Continue Reading
China Intellectual Property Theft. The Statistics Are Damn Lies.
Posted in Legal NewsPC World Magazine has an excellent article on the costs of intellectual property (IP) violations in China. The article is entitled, “US Panel Looks at Intellectual Property Violations in China,” and what it essentially says is that the value of China’s stolen IP has been grossly exaggerated. The PC World article was written on… Continue Reading
Chinese Software Piracy Declining — But, Hey, We Like Them Stealing Our IP Anyway
Posted in Legal NewsThe International Herald Tribune, in an article today, entitled, “Step in ‘right direction’ on piracy,” noted that the software industry is making “modest progress” in “encouraging” Chinese computer users to pay for their software, rather than copying it illegally. According to the Business Software Alliance, the software industry’s leading trade group, the rate of pirated… Continue Reading


