Asia
Creating an effective FinTech IP strategy
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on October 10, 2018
AWA Asia’s IP strategy and patent team in Beijing looks at the China FinTech market, discusses available IP protection mechanisms and considers how revised guidelines could provide opportunities to protect technology in this rapidly developing sector What is FinTech? The term financial technology or FinTech refers to businesses that utilise technology to create financial services...
Tags: Asia, awa asia, Branding, china, copyright, design patents, fintech, Intellectual Property, managing ip
Women supporting women in IP Law
By AWA | Posted on April 27, 2017
Outnumbered in a male dominated industry, the women in Intellectual Property Law are creating global networks to actively promote and help each other out – in work as well as in life. Carol Thorstad-Forsyth is a Partner at US law firm Fox Rothchild LLP. With a degree in the field of Electrical Engineering, she is...
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Tags: AIPLA, Asia, Denmark, Intellectual Property, IP, network, Promotion, Support
New IP courts major step forward in China’s judicial reforms
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on March 24, 2015
In November and December 2014, China announced the long awaited establishment of three specialized IP courts in the Tier 1 cities of Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai. These courts are empowered to hear the following cases: First instance civil and administrative cases related to patents, new plant varieties, layout design of integrated circuit, technological secrets and...
How to protect your IP rights in Hong Kong
By Vibeke Warberg Rohde | Posted on February 2, 2010
Many people are aware of the important role that Hong Kong plays for trade in Asia, not least as a gateway to the Chinese market, yet few know much about how to go about protecting their intellectual property rights there. Since 1997 Hong Kong has had its own patent law under which a British or...
Tags: Asia, Chinese, English, Hong Kong, IP rights
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