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This past week saw our second big snow of the year in Beijing. Although I am enjoying this particularly warm and mild winter, it was nice to see the ground and the trees covered in white. This is the way the Capital should be in the winter! Enjoy the beauty of the winter but just be careful as the ground can be slippery when the snow melts and freezes. And don't forget to bundle up!?

In the News

Mandarin Trademark Translation, a literal problem, is very important in Chinese Market

There can be no questioning the status of China as a major player in the global trade arena. Companies eager to break into foreign markets as well as Chinese market generally make some mistakes on naming their Chinese trademarks. Herewith provide some suggestions and references for you when you are considering entering the Chinese market and looking into the better choices for your trademarks used and filed in China.Read More >>


China trademark applications in Taiwan rise sharply

Chinese firms filed 35 percent more trademark applications in Taiwan in 2010 compared to a year earlier, reflecting ever closer commercial ties between the two sides, government data showed. Meanwhile, Taiwan filed 10,767 trademark applications to China in 2010, a rise of 0.85 percent from the previous year.Read More >>

China Stands Out in Trademark Applications

According to the report 2010 of WIPO, the global financial crisis has affected the innovation activity in 2008 and 2009 and the growth data shows a slowdown. Yet China has shown strong growth in trademark filings.Read More >>

Lack of IPR enforcement key concern: enforcement of intellectual property rights in China "stayed the same" or "deteriorated"?

The combination of deteriorating IPR enforcement, domestic protectionism and human resource constraints are restricting the opportunities for foreign companies seeking to compete fairly in China, a key business survey revealed recently.. .Read More >>

Hebei Province in China smashed 38 counterfeit production sites

The special actions on cracking down upon intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement and manufacture and distribution of fake and shoddy commodities taken by the Hebei province have achieved initial progress, according to the information from Hebei Provincial Intellectual Property Office.Read More >>

Supervision boosted to protect intellectual property

SUZHOU, Jiangsu - The central government is making greater efforts in fighting violations of intellectual property rights by establishing a weekly updating system with more timely reports from law enforcement authorities.Read More >>

New North Point building custom built for success

Customs officers officially moved into a new ultramodern headquarters with an indoor shooting range and a computer simulation system for scenario-based training Read More >>

Fake busters

Lineament Monitoring System II - jointly developed by the Customs and Excise Department and the University of Hong Kongกฏs Center for Information Security and Cryptography - is a new mechanism that makes 24-hour monitoring possible, and the challenge is stopping online?auctions of fake goods as well as intellectual property infringements.Read More >>


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