An Asia-wide intellectual property festival will be held in Hong Kong in April, featuring Japanese musicians – including Cocomi as its ambassador – and pop culture exports such as hit franchises Gundam and Godzilla. Held at AsiaWorld-Expo on April 4 and 5, Con-Con Hong Kong will also showcase immersive exhibitions and dialogue sessions with Asian…
W&H Law Firm opens a Foshan office, marking its 56th branch worldwide, which aims to further integrate the firm into the development of the Greater Bay Area. The Foshan office is led by founding partner Meng Lifeng, who has 27 years of experience in real estate and construction, corporate governance and criminal defence. The new…
Source: Yenlex Partners Yenlex Partners has opened a Shenzhen branch, marking its entry into the Greater Bay Area and building on its regional expansion plans following the launch of its Hangzhou office in 2023. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Beijing, Yenlex focuses on private equity, investment funds, securities and capital markets, dispute resolution, intellectual…
“Baby Shark Dance” became a global earworm almost a decade ago, but the viral jingle — which has racked up more than 16 billion views on YouTube — still ranks among the internet’s most recognizable pieces of children’s entertainment. Riding that unprecedented success, creator Pinkfong Co. is debuting on South Korea’s small-cap Kosdaq market on…
Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. When Bill Gates cautioned Satya Nadella that Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) $1 billion OpenAI investment could go up in flames, few could have imagined it would turn into a $135 billion stake. Microsoft shares climbed nearly 2% Tuesday after…
Earlier this week, the European Union disclosed plans that it could force Chinese firms to hand over technology and intellectual property to European companies if they want to operate locally. That is ironic as it seems only yesterday that Westerners were accusing China of forced tech transfer and violating intellectual property rights. The latest push…
Some young Chinese writers are said to be “in a state of panic” over rapid advances in artificial intelligence tools like DeepSeek, as they question whether the emerging technology is a blessing or a curse. The debate was one of the key themes at a two-day conference held in Suzhou in late September – “Border…
Hong Kong is set to sign a deal with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on Monday to pave the way for sharing relevant court judgments with the United Nations agency, the city’s finance chief has revealed. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po on Sunday also highlighted the importance of intellectual property as an emerging high-value…
The European Union has obtained a mostly favourable ruling in one of its continuing trade disputes with China over intellectual property, according to a decision published by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday. Brussels first brought its case against China to the WTO three years ago, charging that Beijing was preventing European tech companies…
On 21 July, the WTO circulated the arbitration award in the proceedings initiated by the European Union under Article 25 of the Dispute Settlement Understanding to review the findings of a WTO dispute panel in “China — Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights” (DS611). Source link