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Intellectual property in China

Innoscience Technology makes high-performance, low-cost gallium-nitride-on-silicon power chips. Photo: Innoscience

Chinese power chipmaker Innoscience found to have infringed rival’s patent

The US International Trade Commission rules that Innoscience infringed one of the patents of American firm Efficient Power Conversion Corp.

Opinion | China’s path to sustainable growth goes beyond economic stimulus

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18 arrested in raids on Hong Kong karaoke rooms allegedly playing songs illegally

Hong Kong and Peru conclude talks on free-trade pact, finance minister says

Deal, which would be ninth such pact Hong Kong has in place, also covers investment and intellectual property.

The Peruvian capital of Lima. Peru was Hong Kong’s fifth-largest trading partner in Latin America last year. Photo: Shutterstock

Explainer | How can Hong Kong foster AI and make city an intellectual property hub?

Government asks for views on ways to boost copyright law, protect development of AI and bolster bid to be regional intellectual property trading centre.

Hong Kong seeks changes to copyright law to bolster AI development

Authorities hope to modernise law to keep pace with latest AI developments as city aims to become regional IP trading centre.

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China approves Wegovy weight-loss drug made by Danish firm Novo Nordisk

The number of overweight adults in China, the world’s second most populous country, is projected to reach 540 million by 2030, according to a mainland public health study.

Boxes of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy and diabetes medicine Ozempic are seen at a pharmacy in London on March 8, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Swiss philosopher sues former Chinese student over alleged plagiarism

Sinologist Iso Kern is suing Ni Liangkang over a Chinese translation of his book which he says was ‘illegally published’.

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China’s Hytera resumes walkie-talkie sales after US court suspends global ban

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday suspended the global sales injunction against Hytera’s two-way radio products.

China’s patent applications being sped up, scrutinised to boost key industries

Innovation is increasingly coming under the spotlight amid Beijing’s push for tech self-reliance, but criticisms persist that quantity is being emphasised over quality in the pursuit of patents.

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A child visits the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 6. China is looking to enhance its patent reviews in fields such as AI. Photo: AFP

China and US battle fiercely on yet another tech front: patent applications

According to 2023 UN data, Chinese inventors led in international patent applications for the second year running, posting some 14,000 more than the second-place US.

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Oppo ends protracted legal battle with Nokia, agrees on 5G royalties

The two firms had been engaged in multiple patent lawsuits, including one that resulted in Oppo being banned from selling smartphones in Germany.

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Why a Chinese court recognised the copyright for an AI-generated image

Assigning generative AI content a legal status under certain conditions aims to encourage people to create with new tools, Beijing Internet Court judge Zhu Ge said.

Alibaba’s AliExpress, PDD-owned Temu face supply chain challenges in South Korea

Despite their growing popularity, AliExpress and Temu are generally lagging behind the competition in South Korea in terms of fast delivery service and product quality assurance.

South Korea was ranked as the world’s fourth-largest e-commerce market with a projected revenue of US$139.8 billion in 2023, according to a report from online database ECDB. Photo: Shutterstock

Beijing court rules AI-generated content covered by copyright, eschews US stand

The Beijing Internet Court’s decision is expected have far-reaching implications for future AI copyright disputes, which could eventually benefit Chinese Big Tech companies.

The Beijing Internet Court’s ruling has added fuel to heated arguments on whether artificial intelligence-generated content is protected by copyright laws. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese smartphone giants Huawei and Xiaomi forge patent cross-licensing pact

Before their global agreement was reached, Huawei had been locked in a patent-infringement lawsuit against Xiaomi.

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Huawei renews licensing deal with Ericsson in bid to monetise its tech patents

The Chinese telecommunications giant has inked a new deal with Ericsson that gives each party the right to use the other’s 3G, 4G and 5G technologies in network gear and consumer devices, in the latest effort by the Shenzhen-based firm to turn its patents into money.

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Opinion | Invest in music royalties, support Cantopop – and make money too

Platforms like Musicow in South Korea have found a way to tap K-pop fans, financing original works and creating a new retail investor product. Hong Kong’s finance and creative industries can learn from this.

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Keung To, a member of Hong Kong Cantopop boy band Mirror, performs during a concert in the city on July 25, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Huawei publicises royalty rates as it looks to drive up licensing revenue

Huawei launched a website showing rates for some of its most important communications technologies, as it seeks to greater leverage its huge patent pool to weather US sanctions.

Pressured from abroad, China tackling ‘bad faith’ trademark rules to protect IP

Chinese officials have proposed to update its Trademark Law in an attempt to improve intellectual property protection, especially for foreign companies and brands, with China eager to attract foreign investment amid its slowing economy.

Intel inside? Tests show Chinese firm’s ‘home-grown’ chip was a rebadged device

Microprocessor benchmark testing on the Geekbench platform found that Powerleader’s Powerstar chips were identical to Intel’s Core i3-10105 Comet Lake central processing unit.

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Should the Geekbench findings get confirmed, Powerleader’s Powerstar CPU would mark the latest scandal to tarnish China’s development of indigenous chips, following the infamous Hanxin case in 2006. Image: Shutterstock

China’s semiconductor developers eye shift to RISC-V chip architecture

China’s growing demand for chips used in electric vehicles, servers in data centres and artificial intelligence applications provides a vast opportunity for RISC-V processors to flourish.

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China’s adoption of open-source RISC-V chip architecture, which has experienced fast growth since 2018, is expected to expand into hi-tech applications such as data centres and artificial intelligence. Photo: Shutterstock

Hong Kong author Louis Cha ‘Jin Yong’ gets posthumous win in copyright lawsuit

The Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court ruled that mainland Chinese writer Yang Zhi’s 2002 novel There They Were constituted copyright infringement and unfair competition.

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China’s top display maker BOE slaps Samsung with patent-infringement lawsuits

The legal actions represent the Chinese tech company’s first salvo against Samsung, which had instigated a trade dispute in the US last year.

Asian-Americans should prepare for more hate, committee warns

The termination of the US Justice Department’s China Initiative has not alleviated concerns in the Asian-American community that they are being racially profiled, conference panellists say.

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A woman holds a sign during a rally in Texas this year. Photo: The Dallas Morning News/TNS)

US-blacklisted Huawei denies breakthrough in chip packaging tech

Speculation has been rife about Huawei’s development of a new semiconductor packaging technology that can achieve 7-nanometre performance for chips.

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Speculation about Huawei’s chip plans reflect strong interest in its home market on how the company can overcome stringent US trade restrictions. Photo: Shutterstock

US sanctions boosted China’s R&D investment in some hi-tech fields: study

But the cost of innovation also increased significantly in China because of tech bans imposed by the US government.

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US says China has failed to crack down on copyright infringement, IP piracy

Washington’s updated list comes as economic ties between the superpowers remain strained, and as America has ramped up its tech-containment efforts targeting China.

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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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