Kevin Fisher's MindSay Blog

Chinese Need to Learn Tolerance

chinablawger — 2006-06-20T05:06:59-05:00

While sifting through the Internet in an attempt to gather information for a report, I stumbled upon an article in the China Daily (

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ABA advises China on Patent Law

chinablawger — 2006-06-19T04:06:38-05:00

The American Bar Association (ABA) has made a response to a statement made by China’s State Intellectual Property Organization (SIPO). The statement, focused on the scope of patent rights, allows...

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Vivi's Farewell

chinablawger — 2006-06-08T11:06:54-05:00

Last night the trademark department held a farewell party for Vivi Qin. We'll miss you Vivi!

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Self-Censored Search Engines

chinablawger — 2006-06-08T04:06:54-05:00

Is Yahoo at fault for giving information about its users to the Chinese government? The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), based out of the United Kingdom and Ireland, thinks so. ...

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Privacy and Land Barons

chinablawger — 2006-06-06T09:06:56-05:00

Two short bits of news today: the first about the lack of protection for personal information in China and the massive spamming that follows it, the second about a Chinese lawyer who won’t...

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Punitive Damages going up in China?

chinablawger — 2006-06-04T11:06:35-05:00

Punitive Damages. The word has America’s corporate, medical, and even legal sectors on their knees. If you make a mistake you can get hit for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars of damages. ...

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Taping Death Penalty Trials

chinablawger — 2006-06-01T10:06:00-05:00

A month or two ago I mentioned that capital punishment cases were running rampant in China, with several cases of innocent people being killed hitting the news. In an effort to monitor capital...

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New Housing Laws

chinablawger — 2006-05-31T10:05:19-05:00

It is interesting to start to get a grasp on what a planned economy is. Now China, you might say, is a market economy. That’s only when it wants to be. ...

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Homosexuality Illegal in China

chinablawger — 2006-05-28T11:05:03-05:00

Homosexuality is currently illegal in China. Don’t be too surprised, in 2003 two men in Texas were arrested and prosecuted for sodomy until the U.S. Supreme Court declared state sodomy laws...

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More on Mass Cases

chinablawger — 2006-05-25T03:05:41-05:00

I spoke with a lawyer in our firm about the “opinion” published by ACLA. This lawyer is handling several mass cases. His opinion of the article was hands-down negative. Words used to describe the new rule were...

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