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Tag: China

Posted on July 2, 2021July 7, 2021 Internet Law

Obeying Orders – Yahoo! in China

Via Instapundit, a point we blogged about a week or two ago — some detail on the other side of the argument in the Washington... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021June 28, 2021 Free Expression

Ideological purity

Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday, describing a top-level meeting that discussed... Read more

Posted on June 17, 2021 Free Expression

Best of 2007: Ideological purity

First posted on January 24, 2007. Yahoo News: Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to “purify” the Internet, state media reported on Wednesday,... Read more

Attorney Paul Jones
Posted on June 17, 2021 Enforcement

Branding in the “Wild East”

[stextbox id=”info”]China beguiles.  If it’s not one thing with those guys, it’s another.  If it’s not fake Apple stores, it’s fake IKEA stores: It seems... Read more

Posted on June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 Fashion Law

The creativity of theft

Sarah Burstein, by way of Julie Zerbo, or is it the other way around? An appropriate question: This design squatting (I don't know what else... Read more

Posted on April 21, 2017 Counterfeiting & Piracy

When Fakery Turns Fatal

The New York Times reports about an aspect of trademark enforcement which, among the disputes over rent-seeking and IP overreach, is often forgotten: The value... Read more

Posted on January 7, 2016 Enforcement

IP rights in China: Still inscrutable

Michael Atkins has some highlights from a presentation given last week on enforcing intellectual property rights in China by Professor Zhang Guangliang at the King County (Washington)... Read more

Posted on December 31, 2014January 12, 2015 Counterfeiting & Piracy

China’s feelings hurt

We’ve been following the domestic story of when trademarks hurt. (And get ready for this one, homey!) But we’re not the only sensitive ones out... Read more

Posted on June 3, 2014June 17, 2014 Counterfeiting & Piracy

Olympian irony

China, faced with loss of revenues from the sale of “unauthorized” Olympics merchandise in connection with its “Berlin for the 21st Century” games, has suddenly... Read more

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