BEIJING - The State Intellectual Property Office of P. R. China and the Trademark Office under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the P. R. China will be closed from February 13, 2010 to February 19, 2010.

GENEVA - A workshop hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from February 2 to 5, 2010, brought together over 180 persons from some 32 organizations to promote awareness about accessibility for people with disabilities and to encourage webmasters within the United Nations system and other organizations to implement principles of accessibility in their daily work.

HONG KONG—Chinese authors are considering a lawsuit against Internet giant Google as a group representing writers’ interests works through a list of more than 10,000 pieces of writing that may have been posted on its online library without permission.

LOS ANGELES, California, U.S. and HONG KONG (February 8, 2010) – National Trademark Investigations, a California-based provider of professional investigative services for trademark professionals and brand owners in the United States, and I-OnAsia Ltd., a full service global investigations and security consultancy based in Hong Kong, today announced a strategic alliance through which the two organizations will provide aligned services to track and combat counterfeiting and intellectual property infringement worldwide.

GENEVA - International patent filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) fell by 4.5% in 2009 with sharper than average declines experienced by some industrialized countries and growth in a number of East Asian countries, according to a press release by WIPO.

Marvel is suing to keep the rights to superheroes including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and X-Men. The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan asks a judge to invalidate notices sent by the heirs of artist Jack Kirby to try to terminate Marvel's copyrights.

China may have finally driven away a U.S. search company. After a turbulent time trying to cash in on an internet population of more than 300 million users, Google may leave behind China.

Announced that it received 4,914 U.S. patents in 2009, marking the 17th consecutive year it has topped the list of the world's most inventive companies. IBM also announced that, for the first time, it will offer its invention know-how and patent portfolio...

The company that owned the trademark "i-phone" in China yielded it to Apple, the Web site of China's trademark office shows, removing what could have become a legal roadblock for the similarly named iPhone there.

Hanwang Technology, a Chinese maker of e-readers and other devices, applied for the i-phone trademark

for mobile phones in China in 2004, when it also launched a handset by that name that it no longer sells. But the record for that trademark, which several months ago showed Hanwang as the applicant, now lists Apple's name instead, and it displays a new note saying the trademark was transferred.

Local carrier China Unicom started offering the iPhone late last year. Before the phone launched, a local lawyer had said Hanwang's trademark and the similarity between the terms "i-phone" and "iPhone" would have made it illegal for Apple to sell the iPhone in China.

An official at Hanwang, also known as Hanvon, said Monday that the company had reached an agreement with Apple over the trademark but declined to give details, saying Apple worried reports of the deal could affect its brand.

An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.

China Unicom last month said it had sold 100,000 iPhones. The iPhones sold in China are stripped of Wi-Fi to comply with local regulations, which has driven some users to buy versions of the smartphone offered outside China instead. Those iPhones are brought into China informally from other regions and widely sold at electronics bazaars.

Source: PC World

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