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Gervis got a really cool machine.

Chin Chan Chang

Sold it to Chin.
Made $.

Chin Chan Chang

Sold it to Chan.
Made $$.

Chin Chan Chang

Chinese biz skyrocketed.
Made $$$$$.
Takeover bid.

Chin Chan Chang

Gervis

Chin Chan Chang

OBJECTIVES

RIGHTS HOUSEKEEPING

TEAM

INFRINGER

INFRINGEMENT

INDUSTRY

Administrative

Customs

Criminal

Mediation

C/D Letter

Civil

A. ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
1. Agencies
2. Procedure
3. Pros & Cons

B. CUSTOMS

1. Record Your Rights
2. Train Officers on Your Rights

C. CRIMINAL ACTION
1. Offenses
2. Indictment Threshold
3. Procedure
4. Sentence

Indicted: 5,707
IP offenses : 3,134
Inferior Products: 774
Illegal Business : 1,747
Others : 52

D. MEDIATION
1. Weak Rights
2. Save Face

Outsourced mediation: 120 IP cases
IP cases: 73% settled

E. CEASE & DESIST LETTER

1. Weak Rights
2. DJ

F. CIVIL ACTION
All IPs in Year 2011: 60K (59,612)
Patent: 8K (7,819)
Trademark: 13K (12,991)
Copyright: 35K (35,185)
Licensing: 0.6K (557)
Anti-trust: 1.1K (1,137)
Others: 2.2K (2,193)

P 13%
Trial Level IPs
T 22%

C 59%

L 1%

A 2%

O 3.6%

ET cases = 1,321
HK, MO, TW = 639
Aliens like you = 682 ~ 1.1%

1. When – Time Line
2. Who – Standing
3. What – Infringing Acts
4. How – Proof
5. Pre-trial Motions
6. Remedies

1. TIME LINE
A. Investigation
B. Pretrial Motion in Intermediate Court
C. File a Complaint (w/in 15 days of PM)
D. Docket the case w/in 7 days
E. Serve on D w/in 5 days
F. Filing Defense w/in 15 days
G. Full Trial ? app. 6 ~ 12 mons

1. TIME LINE –
H. Appeal to High Court w/in 15 days
I. High Court ? 3 ~ 6 mons (7,642)
J. Retrial, Sup Ct, 2 yrs (305)

2. STANDING
A. Patentee
B. Exclusive Licensee
C. Sole licensee + inaction of the patentee
D. Assignee

3. INFRINGING ACTS
A. Make
B. Use
C. Offer to sell
D. Sell
E. Import
F. Use the method
G. Product directly made using method
H. Contributory Infringement

3.1 DEFENSE

A. Invalidity ? Stay the case; D institutes
invalidation suit with the Patent
Reexamination Board
B. Prior art defense
C. Prior use defense
D. Statute of Limitation = 2 years

4. BoF & EVIDENCE
A. Reversed in case of a method of making
new products (worldwide)

B. TYPES OF EVIDENCE
*Documentary
*Material
*AV
*Testimonial

No discovery.

BoF does not shift if the other party declines
evidence request.

Possession + Unreasonable denial =
unfavorable inference

Official docs ? cool
Testimony ? not cool

Original > Replica

Extraterrestrial Evidence ? N + L

5. PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS

A. Preliminary Injunction (130, 98%)
B. Evidence preservation (186, 93%)
C. Property preservation (20, 100%)

P must pay surety bond

6. REMEDIES
A. Injunction
*fine—
Individual: up to 100K RMB
Entity: 50K ~ 1 M RMB
Detention for up to 15 days
B. Fee for pre-grant use
C. Damages for post-grant use

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