Report- China opening intellectual property courts
Bloomberg reports that China will open up new intellectual property courts to handle cases of IP violations. The first court, in Beijing, will open within two weeks. By the end of the year Shanghai and Guangzhou will also get courts designed to handle IP cases, including patent and trademark law, the report says. China is a notorious infringer, and games are often pirated and re-uploaded to the country's numerous Android app stores. Chinese companies also register, and effectively steal, popular trademarks, Gamasutra blogger Pascal Clarysse writes: "I know of a video game publisher that recently launched a global hit on the App Store. They did register their trademarks and copyrights in the Com…
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