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Balancing Innovation and Regulation: Comparing China’s AI Regulations with the EU AI Act

By AWA | Posted on April 11, 2024

The recent passing of the EU AI Act presents an opportunity to conduct a comparative law analysis against China’s earlier promulgated artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. This is a crucial time for the industry as global attention increasingly focuses on the ethical development, deployment, and regulation of AI technologies. China, a leading player in AI development,...

Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, china, EU, generative AI, Internet

Faster and Stronger Protection for New Technologies in China

By AWA | Posted on May 22, 2020

There have been a series of amendments to China’s Patent Examination Guidelines over the past year, especially regarding the examination of applications for technologies concerning the internet, AI, big data, block chain and business methods. Unclear issues have been clarified and examination standards unified. Join Xiaofan Chen from AWA Asia’s Beijing office who will discuss...

Tags: AI, big data, block chain, business methods, china, examination guidelines, Internet, patents

Adoption of the copyright directive in the digital single market – Should we be scared or delighted?

By Mette Parlev | Posted on September 25, 2018

On 12 September 2018, the European Parliament voted on the much debated copyright directive – and this time around it was adopted. With the massive amount of criticism, one question comes to mind; what is the fuss all about? According to the European Parliament’s own press release following the adoption of the directive, the most...

Tags: copyright, EU, Internet, platforms, Reform, right holders

The dark side of the Internet

By AWA | Posted on July 12, 2013

On Friday the 14 June 2013 we participated in a seminar arranged by the Danish PTO in corporation with the Confederation of Danish Industry on the topic “IP infringements online”. The seminar aimed at discussing how to protect against infringement of one’s IP-rights on the Internet, and moreover a discussion of counterfeit, its extent and...

Tags: china, Infringement, Internet, trademarks

Trademark Infringements in Social Networks

By AWA | Posted on August 18, 2011

Trademark Infringements in Social Networks Last year, in 2010, Facebook passed 500 million users. That’s more than the population of USA, Canada and Mexico put together. It is safe to say that Facebook and other social networks are very powerful and important tools of communication in many different aspects, affecting most things from your personal...

Tags: Infringement, Internet, Media, Social Networks, Trademark

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Ylva Strandberg, Counsel and AU and NZ Patent Attorney, Stockholm, Sweden

Ylva Strandberg

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Hongyue Li, Senior Associate and China Patent Attorney, Beijing, China

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