Happy Yuan Xiao Jie to everyone. I’m sitting here eating Yuan Xiao, listening to the last of the fireworks, and of course thinking about China intellectual property law. Doesn’t everyone?
Paul Midler has a great post up on a couple possible cases of China trademark infringement. He correctly calls the first as a fairly solid case:
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At times it is instructive to go back in time and read some of the seminal pieces which describe the mood of that day. Worst case, you get a reminding glimpse of the prevailing thoughts (and giggle at their naïveté), but if you are lucky, you uncover a long forgotten treasure that provides you with [...]
ChinaBio Today submits:
Three of big pharma’s biggest companies, Merck (NYSE: MRK), Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), have banded together to create an Asian not-for-profit company that will construct a pharmacogenomic cancer database in Singapore (see story). The database will compile its information using 2,000 tissue samples from patients with lung and [...]
Vega submits:
I’ve discussed the challenges facing the US, EU, and China many times. Today I’ll discuss some possible outcomes to their problems and how we can position for (or at least hedge against) these possible futures. When discussing anything beyond the immediate future, we always need to maintain a great deal of humility. [...]
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1. Nanjing 1912 is what all of China would look like if Chiang Kai-shek had won the war.
2. Can’t decide which is turning me off more on the Olympics, CCTV 5 turning over all of the air time to Wang Meng or NBC just plowing the Olympic hockey gold [...]
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The other day, I instructed a client of mine from doing something I was pretty certain would violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). When I told him that what he was proposing would almost certainly be illegal, he assured me that in the country in which he [...]
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… of making no pictures no more:of course I’m making pictures. After all, I’m not only illustrating this beautiful blog, but others too. Like the one featuring former Bishop Margot Käßmann, on Taide’s blog.Filed under: Germany, international, military Tagged: Afghanistan, Bremen, conscience, Germany, ideology, image, imperialism, international, media, military, [...]
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Taiwan’s oppositional Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won three out of four seats up for grabs in Saturday’s by-elections to the Legislative Yuan. DPP candidates won in Taoyuan County’s third electoral district, in Hsinchu County, and in Chiayi County’s second electoral district. The KMT won in Hualien.“I need to [...]
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This is it: the marquee event of the XXI Winter Olympic Games has its marquee matchup on the final day of competition. (With all due respect to the men’s 50 km cross-country skiing race, we’re not talking about that). By all indications, Canada vs. USA for men’s hockey gold [...]
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We felt like a nice, classy dinner whilst in Japan.
I’d spent the whole day around Shinjuku shopping up a storm *ahem*, and I’d noticed that the massive Takashimaya department store had 2-3 full levels dedicated to restaurants, dubbed Restaurant Park. They range from mid-range to fine-dining, so I thought [...]