Useful articles relevant to IP and APAA are linked below.
Hong Kong Group
Documents
- 2014
- October 20 40th Anniversary Report (doc), President’s Speech (doc)
- 2013
- October 3 Hong Kong Group Report for APAA (pdf) for the 62nd Council Meeting of 19-22 October, 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam
- May 31 Response to Intellectual Property Department's Request for Views on the Regulation of Patent Agency Services (pdf)
Hong Kong Group Reports
- 2012
- Hong Kong Group Report for APAA (pdf) for the 60th & 61st Council Meetings on October 27-31, 2012 in Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Designs Report (pdf)
- Designs Summary Report (pdf)
- Designs Special Topic Answers (pdf)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Special Report "Legal and practical measures to prevent parallel imports" (pdf)
- Patents Report (pdf)
- Patents Report Annex (pdf)
- Trademark Report (pdf)
- Trademark Special Report "Protection of well-known marks from different perspectives" (pdf)
- Emerging IP Rights Report (pdf)
- Emerging IP Rights Special Report "Business Method and the Laws of Nature, As Discussed by the US Supreme Court in Mayo v. Prometheus" (pdf)
- 2011
- Hong Kong Group Report for APAA (pdf) for the 59th Council Meeting on November 12-15, 2011 in Manila, Philippines
- Designs Special Topic Answers (pdf)
- 2010
- Report for APAA (pdf)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Report (pdf)
- Copyright Report (pdf)
- Copyright Special Report "Liability for the provision of digital video recording for television programmes through a remote storage-digital video recorder service" (pdf)
- Designs Report (pdf)
- Designs Special Topic Answers (pdf)
- Emerging IP Rights Special Topic Answers (pdf)
- Patents Report (pdf)
- Patents Report Annex (pdf)
- Trademarks Report (pdf)
- Trademarks Discussion Chart "Trademark protection against third parties’ bad faith Trademark filing, registration and importation" (pdf)
- 2009
- Report for APAA (pdf)
- Designs Report (pdf)
- Designs Special Report "Are Spare Parts Protected? Must Fit/Must Match Provision in Design Law" (pdf)
- Copyright Report (pdf)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Report (pdf)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Special Report "How to deal with sales of counterfait goods via the internet" (pdf)
- Trademarks Report (pdf)
- Trademarks Summary Report (pdf)
- Trademarks Discussion Chart "Trademark Conflict on the Internet" (pdf)
- 2008
- Report for APAA (doc)
- Hong Kong Country Report (doc)
- Designs Report (doc)
- Designs Special Report "Relationship between Protection by Registered Design and Copyright" (doc)
- Copyright Report (doc)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Report (doc)
- Patents Report (doc)
- Trademarks Report (doc)
- Trademarks Discussion Chart "Inherent Distinctiveness of Trademarks" (doc)
- 2007
- President Report - AGM (doc)
- Report for APAA (doc)
- Patent Report (zip)
- Trademark Report (zip)
- Copyright Report (zip)
- Designs Report (doc)
- Anti-Counterfeiting Report (pdf)
- Emerging IP Rights Report (doc)
- 2006
- General report by Anne Choi (pdf)
- APAA Designs Report (pdf)
- Protection of Two Dimensional Designs in Hong Kong (pdf)
The main APAA website is at apaaonline.org. Other IP related websites are listed below.
IP Links
Hong Kong Organisations
- HKITMP
- Hong Kong Institute of Trade Mark Practitioners Limited
- www.hkitmp.org
- IPD
- Hong Kong Government Intellectual Property Department
- www.ipd.gov.hk
International Organisations
- WIPO
- World Intellectual Property Organisation
- wipo.int
- AIPPI
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
- www.aippi.org
- FICPI
- International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
- ficpi.org
- LES
- Licensing Executives Society International
- lesi.org
- ECTA
- European Communities Trade Mark Association
- www.ecta.org
- AIPLA
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- aipla.org