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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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