The Minister of Justice, Mr. Zhang Sujun, emphasizes the importance of administrative sanction against piracy in an interview with the Journal of 21st Century. His talk just followed the recent release of the USTR Assessment Report on China’s WTO Committment, which labels intellectual property protection as one of areas that have fallen back or slowed down the reform.
Philips settled a series of invalidation disputes over its DVD patent on “the method and device of eceiving and dispatching codified datum”. Philips agrees not to enforce its patent in China on the condition that 5 applicants withdraw their patent invalidation applications from China IPO. This is merely an insignificant patent in the patent pool on DVD manufacture owned by 6C and unlikely to noticeably decrease the patent burden on the China’s DVD enterprises.
Permalink Comments off
Skype has got more than 29 million Chinese registrants, most of whom can only use the computer-to-computer service (Skype in model). The popular Skype-out service was not offered in the Chinese market due to the strict telecom regulation. Recently, Skype, though its local partner Tom.com, began quietly offering Internet Telephony services to those registrants who may pay by international credit cards. It seems that Skype attempts to test the water by partially opening its VoIP service in China.
It’s been quite a few years that the government attempts to adopt a real-name system on the Internet, which will require any Internet user to provide his/her personal ID and real name for the registration with a blog, BBS, chatroom or any other online forum. Despite the users’ concern for privacy, the government seems determined to push forward. The lattest solution would maintain the real-name requirment for registration but allow pseudonyms to be shown online.
A network company in Nanjing was ordered to apologize to and compensate the Plaintiff who was insulted by an article published on a blog hosted on that company’s website. The court ruled that the defendant failed to observe the duty of care as a honest manager of its blogging system.
Permalink Comments off
« Previous Page — « Previous entries « Previous Page · Next Page » Next entries » — Next Page »
