The EU is ferociously protecting its Geographical Indications (GIs) in the name of authenticity and rural development. Not only in the countries of the EU, but internationally. Australia and most other New World countries protect geographical names via their trademark system, but also via a sui...

Five years after its accession to the World Trade Organisation, the consensus among IP lawyers and scholars at the IPR in China Conference in London last year was that China has enormously improved its IPR system. However, it is still far from perfect. On the books China's implementations of IPR...

Since foreign social media sites have been banned, three Chinese social media sites, all listed at the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, are thriving. Chinese social media are insulated from foreign competition at their domestic market. However doing business in China does not become easier for...

Google and China have found each other in a marriage of convenience, in order to serve the one god they both live by: innovation. This article deals with censorship and intellectual property. Two of the biggest challenges that the internet present to the legal community. The main characters are...