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Germany is one of the world’s leading locations for international specialist and consumer trade fairs. Numerous important trade fairs and exhibitions take place in Germany’s exhibition venues, including, for instance, the computer fair, CeBit in Hannover, the Hannover Trade Fair, the IFA (consumer electronics) in Berlin, the Nuremburg Toy Fair, the International Weapons Fair (IWA) in Nuremburg and the Frankfurt Car Show. These fairs and numerous other shows have a leading role in the world and as such draw large numbers of visitors and exhibitors each year from all over the world.
Many European companies are keen to enter the China market and develop long-term partnerships in China. In order to achieve this, they are often willing to transfer their latest technology to Chinese subsidiaries of European firms and joint-venture partners.
The CEO looked in disbelief at his company’s latest audio device prototype, representing two years of groundbreaking engineering – its burnished-chrome design the result of months of intensive effort by a team of international experts.
In order to crack down on film and video infringement, maintain a normal market order and push the legalizing process, the concerned government departments, film and video producers and new media platform operators are actively adopting new thinking and creative models, attempting to establish a copyright protection system covering all films and videos of new media and to push the setting of industry standards and regulations.
Interviewee: Lv Guoqiang, Director of Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration
After the successful application of the Shanghai Expo, China made a promise to the world, namely the IPR Protection Outline of Expo 2010 Shanghai, which put forward ten measures concerning IPR protection of the Shanghai Expo. Lv Guoqiang has stated that the job they did made good on the promise.
Most of the traditional folk arts which survive the tide of industrialization and maketization are often trapped in the vortex of intellectual property issues.
Auto market is witnessing hot competition, such as trademark disputes involving with “捷跑JIEPAO” and “捷豹JIEBAO,” “BMW” and “BYD.”
The most essential function of a trademark is to indicate the source or origin of goods in order to prevent confusion and to establish goodwill so that consumers can distinguish and select goods.
Intellectual property, as we know it, is not so much about the property right for the intellectuals as it is an instrumentality for competition in the marketplace for a share of the economical pie.
Whenever fashionable people become immersed in their own worlds holding their iPhones and wearing the earphones, people can’t help to glance at them sideways, not in amazement of how chic they are, but in hopes of getting a glimpse of the iPhones.