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Multiple Reasons for Optimism: China's IP Picture Continues to Evolve
Watch carefully as China now prepares new policy guidelines, expected by the end of this year, for its semiconductor industry. Policy-makers and economists say, no doubt correctly, that China has identified semiconductors as a core part of its high-tech and overall business strategy. Tax exemptions and tax reductions will be major components of the emergent strategy, as will direct subsidies for R&D. Such tactical economic initiatives are expected to affect foreigners, including American expert technicians and corporate partners, as well as domestic interests.
It will also be interesting to see what, if any, intellectual property provisions are included in the new guidelines to both protect indigenous semiconductor manufacturers and assure non-Chinese companies as to the protection of their own products. At the most general level, any formal commitments by the Chinese in this area can only reinforce increasingly optimistic prognostications regarding their overall willingness to respond to global IP concerns ' a willingness that has fast become a matter of Chinese self-interest, if nothing else.
The economic and IP dimensions are more interrelated than might at first seem apparent from the ongoing dialogue on semiconductors so far. IP has not yet been all that publicly conspicuous a part of this particular dialogue. But there's some very relevant history related to China, and its aspirations for its semiconductor industry, which suggests that the forthcoming guidelines may well have multifaceted implications on numerous fronts.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?