Joe Mcdonald

December 28, 2012 | Daily Report Online

By Joe McDonald

4 minute read

September 23, 2003 | Law.com

A Chinese court on Monday ordered the U.S. company that publishes The Wall Street Journal to pay a Chinese calligrapher $50,000 in a dispute over its use of one of his Chinese characters as its corporate logo in China, a Dow Jones & Co. lawyer said. The case was an unusual collision between art and commerce in a Chinese legal system that is under pressure to fight widespread piracy of copyrights and other intellectual property.

By Joe McDonald

2 minute read

March 15, 2006 | Law.com

Promoters of China's controversial wireless encryption system on Tuesday accused backers of a rival U.S. system of "dirty tricks" after the world industrial standards group rejected the Chinese system for global use. China is promoting WAPI in an effort to reduce reliance on foreign technology and give its companies a competitive edge. Members of the International Organization for Standardization rejected WAPI in favor of the American standard known as 802.11i, the Geneva-based group said Monday.

By Joe McDonald

3 minute read

March 15, 2006 | Law.com

Promoters of China's controversial wireless encryption system on Tuesday accused backers of a rival U.S. system of "dirty tricks" after the world industrial standards group rejected the Chinese system for global use. China is promoting WAPI in an effort to reduce reliance on foreign technology and give its companies a competitive edge. Members of the International Organization for Standardization rejected WAPI in favor of the American standard known as 802.11i, the Geneva-based group said Monday.

By Joe McDonald

3 minute read

January 02, 2007 | Law.com

A Beijing court has ordered the popular Chinese Web portal Sohu.com to pay $140,000 in damages for distributing Hollywood movies online without permission, the movie industry's trade group said last week. A subsidiary of Sohu.com Inc. also must publish an acknowledgment of wrongdoing, the Motion Picture Association said. The MPA blames piracy in China for costing U.S. studios $244 million in lost box office revenues last year.

By Joe McDonald

2 minute read

November 07, 2007 | Law.com

Microsoft Corp. and China's No. 2 personal computer maker signed an agreement Nov. 7 to pre-install Microsoft's Windows operating system in PCs to combat widespread Chinese product piracy. The agreement with Founder Technology Group Corp. shows "the commitment of both companies to protect intellectual property rights," the companies said in a joint statement.

By Joe McDonald

2 minute read

March 15, 2006 | Legaltech News

Promoters of China's controversial wireless encryption system on Tuesday accused backers of a rival U.S. system of "dirty tricks" after the world industrial standards group rejected the Chinese system for global use. China is promoting WAPI in an effort to reduce reliance on foreign technology and give its companies a competitive edge. Members of the International Organization for Standardization rejected WAPI in favor of the American standard known as 802.11i, the Geneva-based group said Monday.

By Joe McDonald

3 minute read

December 21, 2007 | Law.com

An industry group says it has won a new round in a court battle with Yahoo Inc.'s China arm, which is accused of helping online music pirates. A Beijing appeals court on Dec. 20 upheld a ruling against Yahoo China over its search engine's links to outside Web sites that carried illegally copied music, the International Federation of Phonographic Industries said.

By Joe McDonald

3 minute read

April 29, 2010 | Legaltech News

Global technology suppliers face a looming Chinese deadline to reveal the inner workings of computer encryption and other security products in a move the U.S. and Europe say is protectionist, stating no other nation imposes such a demand and want Beijing to scrap or at least postpone it.

By Joe McDonald

5 minute read

June 30, 2010 | Legaltech News

China is threatening to revoke Google's business license over the company's decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the government's censorship practices. This threatens to cripple the search giant in one of the web's biggest markets.

By Joe McDonald

4 minute read