Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing enormous productivity and increased value in many applications. But AI is no panacea and is not yet sufficiently well developed to be precise or dependable everywhere.
The Counsellors Office of Beijing Municipal People's Government and Cloud River Urban Research Institute jointly published a report that makes a comprehensive comparison of the three S&T clusters and further discusses the innovation strengths and weaknesses of Beijing.
Now, when we talk about Metaverse and NFTs, and you refer to the Hermes case, this is a question of how the development of how new technologies can affect existing rights. And what is the balance between art, creation, and existing IP rights?
Founded in 2019, BDPE has served leading enterprises including Huawei, Deutsche Telekom, etc. The team also dealt with over 40 patent litigation cases for Chinese clients from just 2021 to 2022. Recently, China IP interviewed the firm to find out the secret of its success.
The recent judgement of the General Court of the European Union in Case T‑323/21 Castel Frères v. Shanghai Panati Co. deals with the genuine use of a trade mark and distinctiveness of Chinese character trade marks in the EU. The Court decided that the registration of the contested Chinese character trade mark shall be revoked because its level of distinctiveness is below the average and it had been only used as a decorative element and not as an indication of origin of the goods.
On 29 November 2022, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposals for a new Directive on the legal protection of designs (hereafter “DDir”) and a new Regulation on Community designs (hereafter “DReg”). The Directive is the instrument used to provide harmonization amongst EU Member States with regard to their national design laws.
Following the launch of the plan, the 14th National People’s Congress of China passed the institutional reform of the State Council. The functions of CNIPA and the SAMR are now coordinated, and the enforcement teams of SAMR maintain the duty to enforce the law for trademarks and patents, under the professional guidance of the CNIPA. But what does this reform mean for dispute resolution, particularly arbitration, in resolving disputes around IP?
On January 13, 2023, the\ CNIPA issued the Bill to Revise the Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China. This paper will sort out the key amendments that have the greatest impact on trademark practice, and discuss the reasons behind the amendment, the possible influence and the countermeasures that shall be taken by a right holder.
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked, mountainous country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Armenian is the only official language even though Russian is widely used.
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