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
2006 has gone but the scandals are left.
The Supreme Court released a long-awaited judicial interpretations against unfair competition. Before the revision of the Law against Unfair Competition, the judicial guidelines will play an important role to update the Chinese rules regarding passing-off and trade secret protection. The guidelines cover a couple of important issues, such as reverse engineering and comparative advertising.
http://laws.ipr.gov.cn/ipr/laws/info/Article.jsp?a_no=47891&col_no=131&dir=200701
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In recent year, a couple of cases were brought to the court regarding stealing the visual property (such as weapons, helmets) generated from the visual games or created in the visual communities. It is difficult to draw a line between the so-called visual property and the other intangible property, but misappropriation of the visual property is hardly an intellectual property infringement.
The most popular instant message system “QQ” (whose logo is two cute penguins) is suing a large online auction site “Tao Bao” (looking for your fortune) for infringing copyright by allowing the users to sell QQ numbers and Q currency on its platform. Meanwhile, Tao Bao brought a non-infringement suit in another court against QQ. QQ (previously called OICQ) was developed initially as the Chinese version of the ICQ.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2007-01-15/06461334645.shtml
Visual crimes are drawing people’s attention.
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The telecom standard for the third-generation has always been a highly controversial. After the MII determines to adopt the Chinese-enterprise developed TD-sCDMA standard, instead of the other two foreign-controlled standards, the scholars criticize the decision for 3G is as useless as the skill to kill the dragons that do not actually exist. The telecom monopoly has always been able to capitalize on its monopoly physical network. A new 3-G network will repeat the history. In order to stimulate competition, telecom industry should be as open as the computer industry. Instead of maintaining the telecom monopoly by issuing a few 3G licenses, the government should encourage and support the bottom-up Internet based wireless broadband network, which is the direction of 4G.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-01-11/14211330785.shtml
http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2006-05-10/1251931126.shtml
http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-04-04/02131447419.shtml
A fix-line operator–Netcom–has joined the debate. A wifi-city model may emerge.
http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2007-06-08/01141551827.shtml
Six cities have joined the new wireless initiative using WiMax technologies. But competition regulation, license issuance and frequency allocation are plaguing the development.
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