March 7, 2007 at 6:31 am
· Filed under Archives, Internet Governance
The DVD forum consisting of 10Cs has adopted a new standard–HD-DVD, which is only applied to China Mainland. The forum is the coalition of DVD technologies and patentees. The new standard is primarily purport to address the piracy problem in the Chinese market. With the implementation of the new standard, Chinese DVDs will only be operable on domestic DVD machines, and exported DVDs or machines are subject to higher patent fees.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/e/2007-03-06/00371401999.shtml
As for the new development of this standard, please see http://tech.sina.com.cn/e/2007-09-10/01571726863.shtml.
This standard is being criticized by the domestic EVD coalition as discrimination and “patent trap” against Chinese DVD industry.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2007-03-07/03251404222.shtml;
http://tech.sina.com.cn/e/2007-03-08/00451406030.shtml
On another standard, it is expected that government will provide more support through governmental procurement to WAPI products, which are competing with the mainstream WiFi standard.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-03-07/03501404237.shtml
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February 16, 2007 at 8:48 am
· Filed under Archives, Internet Governance, Legal News
At the beginning of 2007, “Giant Panda” was the most damaging virus spreading on the net. After the virus spreaders were captured by the police, a series of illegal business were disclosed. Once the virus was created, it was posted on the net for sale. The purchasers may then hack into the victims’ compute to steal their personal information. The following step would be selling the stolen information online.
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/l/2007-02-16/010912329667.shtml
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February 16, 2007 at 3:09 am
· Filed under Archives, Internet Governance
Ministry of Public Security announced that a Chinese citizen ID information system has been established. For the purpose of safeguarding network security, ID information of 1.3 billion population, 0.9 billion telephone and Internet users is put in this database.
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2007-02-15/182612329019.shtml
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February 14, 2007 at 7:30 am
· Filed under Archives, Intellectual Property
Although Pfizer won several cases in the Chinese courts against pirate products of Viagra, it lost recently over Viagra’s Chinese transliteration “Wei Ge” (meaning “a big brother”).
Beijing First Intermediary People’s Court upheld a lower court ruling and ordered Beijing Health New Concept Pharmacy Company and Lianhuan Pharmaceutical Company to stop making their little blue pills and ordered Lianhuan to pay Pfizer 300,000 yuan ($38,000) in damages.
In contrast, Pfizer has filed an appeal after losing a lawsuit over the Chinese name “Wei Ge” for its impotence treatment Viagra.
http://english.cri.cn/3130/2007/02/05/262@192838.htm
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February 14, 2007 at 7:24 am
· Filed under Archives, Intellectual Property
Lead defendant Wang Xun is accused of illegally purchasing the Tamiflu formula for 150,000 yuan (about US$20,000‚¬15,000) and then joining with others to manufacture and sell a pirated version of the drug. Wang and the others are now being tried at Shanghai’s No. 2 Intermediate Court.
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/02-09-2007/bdc0000ca9788fad.html
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