IP Scene

Beijing

Webcast of gala

Over the recent Chinese New Year holiday, China Central Television for the first time granted broadcasting rights of its live Spring Festival gala to a video website. Some 14 million Web users watched the gala on iqiyi.com, nearly three times the online viewers of the semi-final between the Netherlands and Argentina in the 2014 World Cup. More than 800,000 overseas Chinese were part of the website's audience.

mornignpost.com.cn

Illegal model jet

The Beijing High People's Court recently ruled that Shenzhen-headquartered Feipengda Manufacturing Co must stop making and selling models of the J-10 fighter jet, one of the country's most advanced home-developed military aircraft, and pay Beijing Zhonghang Zhicheng Technology Co 430,000 yuan ($68,760) in compensation. The Beijing company, the only authorized maker of the models, told the court it found Feipengda was selling copies based on its design without authorization.

people's court daily

Hubei

College IP freed

Colleges and research institutions in Wuhan no longer need government approval to sell or lease their own intellectual property, according to regulations that took effect last month. The regulations will allow R&D teams to commercialize intellectual property they develop and settle the share of profit with their parent organizations.

Changjiang Daily

Shanghai

Top keyboard app

TouchPal Keyboard, a smartphone app developed by a local company, has surpassed T9 to become the most popular pre-installed input software in the world, according to a recent industry report. Its users include more than 50 international smartphone makers such as Samsung, HTC, Sony and Huawei. In 2013 the company won a patent lawsuit in the United States against its US competitor Nuance, owner of T9.

Jiefang Daily

Guangdong

Wong Lo Kat spat

Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings has increased its claim for compensation from competitor JDB Drinks and Food Co from 1 billion yuan ($160 million) to about 2.93 billion yuan for alleged violation of its trademark. As part of the long-running dispute, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical sued six companies including JDB last year for infringement on the noted Wong Lo Kat brand from 2010 to 2012. The suit alleges the net profit of the six companies for two years was 2.93 billion yuan.

sse.com.cn

Xinjiang

37 patent awards

The first patent awards in the autonomous region were unveiled last week in Urumqi, where 37 out of 80 submitted patents won the prize. Local government officials said that the award aims to encourage innovation and patent commercialization. The winning patents all represented core technologies that led to considerable economic benefits after commercialization, said organizers. Last year individuals and organizations in the region filings a record-high 10,210 patents.

urumqi.gov.cn

Guangxi

Distance IP learning

The autonomous region recently joined a nationwide distance IP education program, the first in western China. The system was built by the State Intellectual Property Office in 2002 and has helped train some 750,000 people by the end of last year. The Guangxi IP Development and Research Center, manager of the system, plans to promote it to a number of key companies and industry zones across the autonomous region.

Guangxi Daily

(China Daily 03/04/2015 page17)