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...Fakewatch When a team at China's Shanghai Jiaotong University announced in 2003 that it had developed a sophisticated microprocessor for mobile phones and MP3 players, it was hailed as a major step forward for a nation eager to move beyond low-cost manufacturing and piracy. But following an investigation, the school announced last week that the capabilities of the Hanxin-or "China chip"-were exaggerated, and that it relied on copied technology. The university dismissed Chen Jin, above, the project's head and dean of its microelectronics school, accusing him of "serious falsification." The technology may have been...
...Fakewatch Borrowing brand names would seem to be as Chinese as green tea. But if you're a Chinese coffee chain, don't try to pass yourself off as Starbucks. Last week, in a case that should give hope to foreign brands in China, the U.S. java giant won a copyright infringement suit against Shanghai-based Xingbake for appropriating its name (Xingbake is Mandarin for Starbucks) and its signature green-and-white logo. Starbucks, which has 300 outlets in China, had registered the Chinese trademark to the name Xingbake in 1998. The impostor was ordered...
...Fakewatch The United States has never been thrilled about China's taste for fake Viagra and knockoff fashion, but has resisted using trade mechanisms to force a crackdown on piracy?until now. Last week, Washington invoked a seldom-used World Trade Organization rule to demand that Beijing explain what it's doing to enforce intellectual property rights. The move could pave the way for a WTO case against China. "If China believes that it is doing enough to protect intellectual property," U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman said last week, "then it should view this process as a chance to prove...
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