August 31, 2007 at 9:12 am
· Filed under Archives, Legal News
After 13 years’ discussion and drafting, Antitrust Law is finally approved by the NPC. The Law targets at three antitrust acts: monopoly agreement, abusive market domination and anti-competition concentration of operators.
The Law obviously compromises on many key issues:
1. There is only one provision against abuse of intellectual property rights, which will not have substantive effect on present disputes.
2. Administrative monopoly is barely tackled.
3. The enforcement system is also strongly attacked. No centralized enforcement is established. The Antitrust Commission of the State Council is only a coordinating body.
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-08-31/050713783631.shtml
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August 1, 2007 at 3:28 am
· Filed under Archives, Conferences
26th International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) Congress took place in Buenos Aires from July 16th to July 18th, 2007. The Congress attracted more than 300 hundreds IP and researchers from all five continents. The high-quality presentations impressed all the participants. The congress website is at http://www.atripbuenosaires.com.ar/ing/programa.asp.>>
An Yale ISP fellow, Hong Xue, presented on “Copyright Maze in Distance Education” and was re-elected as the Member of ATRIP’s Executive Committee (Exco). Among nine Exco Members, she is the only from Asia.
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July 2, 2007 at 9:20 pm
· Filed under APILP-SSIG, Archives, Conferences
Since July 2000, I have been attending almost all the ICANN meetings. I can make a long list of those meetings in different fancy locations. This time was in San Juan, Puerto Rico (June 23-29). Seven years later, I found I almost know more than 70% of the participants. Local participation is still limited and ICANN is still full of veterans.
I’ve been working with the ALAC since 2003. Since February 2007, I only working as an IDN Liaison of the Committee. In San Juan, I organized an IDN Workshop on June 28, presented at ALAC-Board Meeting on June 27 and public forum on June 28. An IDN WG is going to take off after San Juan and around 10 people have signed on.
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June 24, 2007 at 10:17 pm
· Filed under Archives, Intellectual Property
A Chinese domain name dealer registered the name of former Windows Chief Jim Allchin, which annoyed Mr. Allchin. But this is not a story of cybersquatting, at least not primarily. Instead, this reveals the deceptive practices of some registars or agents. When the registrant agreed to transfer back the domian name to Mr. Allchin, he was barred from doing so several times by the registrar/agent. In the extremely competitive domain name business, a registration can very cheap but there may well be some hidden charges attached to every transfer, correction or update.
http://www.sinofile.net/clients/amcweb.nsf/clpA/03B7F643FDCD37A448257300000C7142
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June 19, 2007 at 12:11 am
· Filed under Archives, Internet Governance
Internet politics is a new form of democratic politics. Blocking and sealing the net will not fulfill the need of Internet politics. These are the conclusion published on Beijing Daidly by 4 authentic Chinese scholars on laws, politics and sociology. Is it signalizing the change of the online weather? No clue.
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-06-18/094213253766.shtml
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