The 10th International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises (INSME)...
The 10th INSME Annual Meeting on “Investing in Innovation: Building a Sustainable Knowledge-based Economy” will take place at Abu Dhabi from the 18th to the 20th of March, co-organized by Khalifa Fund...
View ArticleAppearances do matter!
Intellectual property rights (IPR) infringements against consumer goods in China come mainly in the form of counterfeits. However, infringement is sometimes not so clear cut. Infringers may target the...
View ArticleWe don’t need an IPR strategy for China….
With a number of years of operating the China IPR SME Helpdesk under our belt, we’ve seen many changes to the types of enquiries we receive, as sectoral trends shift and businesses adjust to a changing...
View ArticleWe’re not always so serious about intellectual property.… Introducing the...
Whoever said learning about intellectual property rights in China couldn’t be fun? Well, even if they did they won’t anymore: The China IPR SME Helpdesk is set to release it’s IPR Serious Game – the...
View ArticleLet the Games Begin… It’s official: the Serious Game has been launched!
The China IPR SME Helpdesk launched the Serious Game on Thursday, 22 May at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beijing. There were games to be played, prizes to be won and networks to be made. The name of the...
View ArticleSME in the spotlight: Wuvio
The Dutch SME Wuvio is a market leader in producing chemicals to combat dust for construction sites, energy producers, mining and dry bulk companies. Wuvio works with unique solutions, using innovative...
View ArticlePatent applications in China streamlined for UK businesses
A new patent office partnership between the UK and China may make life easier for UK SMEs wishing to transfer their innovations to China. On July 1 2014 the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and...
View ArticleSomething to wine about….
China’s taste for Western wine has taken-off dramatically in the last decade, with EU wine exports to China worth over 700 million Euros in 2012 – more than ten times the export value of 2006....
View ArticleRecommended reading: EU-China Collaboration – Sustaining Technology and Research
A piece of recommended reading this week for European technology companies considering R&D in China…. This Handbook for Industrial Collaboration highlights some of the main conditions and...
View ArticleSME in the Spotlight: Vogmask
For many foreign SMEs that produce consumer goods e-commerce is the best way in to the Chinese market, offering a B2C channel that is relatively cheap and easy to setup and maintain. Naturally,...
View ArticleTypes of Patent in China
Although rudimentary to some, we are asked about the different types of patent there are in China so often at the Helpdesk that it’s worthy of explanation again here. So here is a concise rundown of...
View ArticleNew EU and China IP Law Database launched
IP Key, a project of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Patent Office (EPO), have launched the EU and China Law Database. It is an online database designed as a...
View ArticleAlibaba – Who is responsible for keeping out the counterfeits?
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is back in the news this week, but with less fanfare than its biggest-IPO-in-history success story back in September. It has been criticised in a report from the State...
View ArticleKnow your Territory – IP is a Territorial Right Registration in Europe Does...
Intellectual property rights are by their nature territorially limited, which means that IPR within a country are independent of any such rights existing in other countries. If you register IP rights...
View ArticleAnother Year on Top for China as the Highest Recipient of Patent Applications...
The much awaited patent application list for 2014 has been released and China is again in poll position, the experts said the World’s second largest economy lacked competitive edge, but for the 4th...
View ArticleHow To Protect Trade Secrets when Meeting Potential Partners
Trade secrets are a valuable and highly useful form of intellectual property right and Coca-Cola is testament to this. They are the global leader in the beverage industry, and it is no wonder that the...
View ArticleHappy World Intellectual Property Day
World Intellectual Property Day on 26th April, also known as World IP Day, though unfortunately not recognised as a national holiday (yet), there are still a number of events and activities happening...
View ArticleE-commerce Law in the works
The internet has become a popular and easy channel for product distribution around the world. It has created a marketplace of more than half a billion users in China, more than a third of the world’s...
View ArticleAlibaba Revises Taobao IPR Enforcement System
Carrying on with the theme from the China IPR SME Helpdesk’s last blog post on e-commerce brand protection, Alibaba Group have made revisions to Taobao’s enforcement policies which took effect last...
View ArticleNew IP Tools
Recently the Helpdesk team has been made aware of three new online tools developed by IP professionals to address IP protection challenges. These practical resources provide European SMEs and...
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