The 9th China IP International Annual Forum will be held in Jan.11,2019
The China IP Annual Forum aims at summarizing and forecasting the IP industry development of China on a yearly basis, exchanging experience and discussing IP strategies as the economic situations vary.
Besides laws and policies, the forums focus more on the functions and values of IP in revitalizing and boosting the real economy as well as its application and management in business innovations and development. The annual forums have become one of the most influential forums in China for arousing strong repercussions and being heavily influential.
After successfully being held for 8 years, the 9th China IP International Annual Forum is now open to register, if you are attorneys in the IP field looking for Chinese clients or enterprise legal personnel seeking assistance with Chinese firms, this is a wonderful opportunity for you.
China Spent $28.7 Billion on IP Imports in 2017
China spent $28.7 billion for the use of imported intellectual property in 2017, official data showed on November 6. The figure was up by nearly 14-fold from 2001, when the country joined the World Trade Organization, said the Report on China’s Services Import released by the Ministry of Commerce. The United States was the top source for such imports, followed by Japan and Germany, which was published on the sidelines of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Most of China’s charges for the use of intellectual property imports went to patents, trademarks and copyrights. In 2017, import charges for the use of intellectual property accounted for 6.1% of China’s total service imports. China has always been an important player, active builder and firm defender of international property rules, the ministry said in the report. At present, China has joined almost all major international intellectual property conventions, it said.
Beijing cracks down on trademark infringement cases involving 14 mln USD
Beijing has cracked down on 2,334 trademark infringement and fake commodity production cases and confiscated over 102 million yuan (about 14.67 million U.S. dollars) so far this year, local authorities said Wednesday.
According to the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, 237 cases that infringed the trademarks of companies including Apple, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Royal Dutch Shell have been investigated and punished.
A Beijing-based company was slapped with a fine of over 55.87 million yuan for illegally using the trademark of Japanese footwear company Onitsuka Tiger, which is the biggest trademark infringement case in Beijing in the past 20 years, the sources said.
Recently, Beijing has been deepening law enforcement cooperation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to crack down harder on online copyright infringement and to strengthen protection of the exclusive use of foreign trademarks.
Chinese talent show I Am the Actor comes to U.S., UK, Canada
The popular Chinese reality show I Am the Actor is coming to English-speaking markets as an international version of the hit TV program will be produced by a U.S. company next year.
Zhejiang Television, the Chinese producer and broadcaster of the talent show, signed an agreement with U.S.-based firm Is or Isn't Entertainment (IOI) on Sunday to produce the international version of the hit program, the Beijing Times reported on Tuesday.
I Am the Actoris a popular Chinese talent show that gathers both well-known and novice actors to perform a short part of a film or TV series in front of a live audience.
They are ranked by a panel of judges, including Zhang Ziyi, a Chinese actress made famous by the Oscar-awarding winning film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,and Chen Kaige, a director known for the film, Farewell My Concubine, a film nominated for two Academy Awards in the 1990s.
Celebrities participating in the talent show include Wang Junkai of boy band TFBoys and Zhang Xinyu, a Chinese actress who gained wide attention for her marriage to an officer in the Chinese People's Armed Police Force.
The program is scheduled to be produced in 2019 and Zhejiang Television will provide Chinese actors and actresses proficient in English.
Under the agreement, IOI and its partner, the U.S.-based firm HMP, will produce the program in English-speaking areas, including the U.S., the UK and Canada.
The deal marks the first time that a Chinese reality show will be brought to the overseas market.
