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Dear Readers, The UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law (“RIPL”) is excited to announce the publication of Volume 20, Issue 2! This issue begins with the transcript of Former Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Paul R. Michel’s keynote address from the 64th Annual Intellectual Property Conference at the UIC John Marshall Law School that took place this past November. The two lead articles are scholarly works written by Paolo Beconcini and R. Mark Halligan. Rounding out the issue are two student case notes by RIPL Staff Editors Jennifer Armstrong and Paige Miller. In the keynote address transc ..read more

By: Dr. Paolo Beconcini I. Introduction: Will a Surge of Design Filings in China Break the System and Nullify the Real Value of Patents? Design patents in China were traditionally defined in the Patent Law as any new shape, pattern, and their combination, or the combination of color and shape or pattern of a product, which creates an aesthetic feeling and is fit for industrial application.[1]The fourth amendment to the Patent Law, which was entered into force on January 1, 2021, expanded the scope of design protection to the outer appearance of the “overall or partial shape, pattern or combina ..read more

By: Dr. Paolo Beconcini and Elisa Li* (please see the end for more on Ms. Li and her practice) Overview of the Supreme People’s Court Provisions on Evidence in Civil Proceedings Involving IP Disputes After the “Decision of the Supreme People’s Court on Revising the Several Provisions on Evidence in Civil Proceedings” became effective on May 1, 2020[1], the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) released for public comment the “SPC’s Provisions on Evidence in Civil Proceedings Involving IP Disputes” (the “Draft”) on June 15, 2020.[2] The Draft is of particular importance because it is the first interve ..read more

Author: Dr. Paolo Beconcini Chinese OEM Trademark Infringement Liability in Light of the Global Covid-19 Crisis For decades, Western companies have relied on Chinese factories to manufacture their products at a low cost and export them back to other markets to be sold with a high margin of profit. This is normally referred to as OEM manufacturing, where OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer. This was the main business model for China’s industrial and economic development, and it earned China the nickname of the “World’s Factory.” In recent years, things have changed. China is now a ma ..read more

Author: Dr. Paolo Beconcini THE LATEST AMENDMENTS TO THE CHINESE PATENT LAW October 17, 2020, the 22nd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress issued a Decision (hereafter and in the Footnotes “The Decision”), adopting the fourth set of amendments to the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China[1] since its original enactment in 2009. These amendments come at a time when China is introducing significant legislative, administrative, and judicial changes to other key IP rights and procedures: such as new criteria for the determination of infringement in ..read more

By: Dr. Paolo Beconcini 2020 China-E.U. Trade Investment Agreement and IP/Technology Theft On December 30, 2020, after seven long years of negotiations, China and the EU concluded negotiations for a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). The frayed political and trade relations with the US, as well as Brexit, convinced the EU members to set aside objections pertaining to China’s human rights violations in order to close the best possible deal with China; now one of their major trade partners. The Chinese, hard pressed to offset the 2020 diplomatic setbacks, including the mishandling of t ..read more

By Dr. Paolo Beconcini (Head of the IP and Anti-Counterfeiting Team – China & APAC – at Squire Patton Boggs) The protection of intellectual property rights is a constant grievance in the trade disputes between China and the United States. As recently as 2018, China’s IP system’s alleged flaws were the immediate and formal cause for the escalation of the US trade sanctions that started the trade war with China.[1] China’s allegedly slow and halfhearted reform of its IP protection system has been indeed a consistent obstacle in the relations between China, the US, and other developed countri ..read more

Dear Readers, The UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law (“RIPL”) is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 20, Issue 1! This issue features three scholarly articles from Professor Ping-Hsun Chen, Shannon Price, and Zachary Shufro, as well as one student comment from RIPL Staff Editor Emily Ruzevich. We are also excited to announce that RIPL has merged with the UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology and Privacy Law (“JITPL”)! Since 1978, JITPL has been a pioneer in providing poignant, novel, and cutting-edge legal analysis and insight in the areas of information technology ..read more