The New Law became effective on August 1.

Around the same time, the Anti-Monopoly Committee was established under the State Council. The Committee is responsible for (a) researching and drafting policies on competition; (b) organizing the investigation and assessment of the overall competition situations in the market and publishing assessment reports; (c) promulgating and issuing anti-monopoly guidances; (d) coordinating the administrative enforcement of the anti-monoly law and regulations; and (e) other responsibilities that the State Council assignes.

Besides the Anti-Monopoly Committee, which is basically a research and coordinating institution, anti-monopoly enforcement institution (s) have also been established respectively under the State Administration of Industry and

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Many internet based companies cooperate with the Chinese government in its efforts to limit the freedoms of the Chinese citizens.

Lately, EPIC, a US based civil rights organization, published that Cisco will be questioned by a senate subcommittee about an internal document that links Cisco with the Chinese governments' internet censorship policy.

In a interview for blogger Rebecca Mackinnon, confirm Terry Alberstein, director of corporate affairs, Cisco systems, that Cisco pamphlets promoting police surveillance equipment to the Chinese public security bureau were authentic and that Cisco does make business with the Chinese government but that all the equipment that is sold is legal and is not actually prohibited under the US Foreign relation authorization ACT.

I guess making money by

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In two different cases a Courthouse in China ruled in favor of two big Italian corporations: the famous prestige brand manufacturer "Gucci" and   the confectionery producer, "Ferrero Rocher",  and set a high fine on two local Chinese manufactures that copied some of the products those companies manufacture. 

Ferrero Rocher spokesman, Alessandro Cagli, said to the china daily that this is an encouraging step and that they will inspect the enforcement of this decision closely.

In a country where cheap imitations can be found almost anywhere, the importance of those rulings becomes even more significant to IP owners.

This is another step China takes as part of its continuing progress trying to level up with the rest of the world in the field of IP protection.

Such decisions are certainly

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A Chinese court has found a man guilty of stealing online game identities and using them to gain virtual possessions in an online multiplayer historical quest game.

The growing number of virtual property disputes in china has led to a call to legislate more concrete virtual property laws. The need for proper virtual property laws has also arised because of the Chinese government intention to create a massive virtual world network in order to promote Chinese businesses in the real world and to attract foreign corporations to china. 

The Chinese government's growing awareness of the need to protect virtual property rights is part of a Chinese revival in the area of protection of intellectual property rights, that has started in the legislation

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According to recently issued statistics by the State Intellectual Property Office of China, 694,153 inventions, utility models and designs were filed in China during 2007, an increase of 21% over 2006 and a new record.

586,734 applications were from Chinese applicants, and 107,319 from non-Chinese applicants, with Japan leading with 38,118 applications, and the USA second.

Granted patents reached 351,782, an increase of 31%.

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