Back to business. For all you IP groupies, here's the latest IP newsletter put out by the State Intellectual Property Office.
Nothing too exciting in there, although I am impressed that SIPO actually spends the time and effort to put this together. IP publicity/propaganda is important these days.

Yes, I've been writing too much about press coverage and politics and not enough about law, business and economics, but you respond to what is out there, right?
And what's out there is real crap. Case in point, this amazing tripe penned by Father Raymond de Souza. Here's the only sentence you need to read to […]

So apparently Bush and Hu Jintao spoke on the phone. That's nothing more than a waste of long distance telephone charges. If you disagree, feel free to check out the waste of space that is this article on the subject.
When you have a U.S. President with no moral authority any longer (sorry, but it's true), […]

Lots of folks have been following this case for a couple years. The main interest here is that involves a Chinese IPR holder suing a U.S. company for patent infringement. Not common at all.
Looks like Netac must have had something going on – PNY settled with them. Check out the Xinhua article for more details, […]

Police have charged a 30-year-old man for the murder of a 27-year-old prostitute in North Point on March 17.

Customs officers have arrested a 33-year-old man with 657 grams of high-grade cocaine worth more than $500,000 in his pockets.

There is now a petition circulating in China addressed to Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao asking that the government withdraw the ban. Here's an English translation; here's the Chinese original. Interestingly, some of the language tracks that of the report…

This is really starting to piss me off:
The IOC Needs to Step in or Perhaps Move On
The article is from the Washington Post. This kind of thing really shouldn't be written by a sports columnist, who is just parroting a bunch of other poorly-researched pieces out there. Note in particular the emphasis placed on that […]

Here's a video of Time reporters Simon Elegant and Austin Ramzy trying to visit Hu Jia's wife Zeng Jingyan at her apartment at the ironically named Bobo Freedom City apartment complex. Zeng is under what amounts to house arrest, although…