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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Feb 19, 2020
Edison, Morse and Watson? AI poses question of who's an inventor
Computers using artificial intelligence are discovering medicines, designing better golf clubs and creating video games.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Feb 16, 2020
With racketeering charges, U.S. releases potent weapon against China telecom giant Huawei
By filing a racketeering charge against Huawei Technologies Co., U.S. federal prosecutors have unleashed a potent legal weapon in a multipronged and increasingly noisy American campaign against the Chinese technology giant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2020
Amazon to ramp up counterfeit reporting to law enforcement
Amazon.com Inc is planning to give more data on counterfeit goods to law enforcement in a further crackdown on fakes listed on its e-commerce sites, a person familiar with the program told Reuters.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 19, 2019
U.S. agencies lax as China recruited researchers and stole intellectual property: Senate report
Federal agencies responded too slowly as Beijing recruited U.S.-based researchers to transfer intellectual property from American laboratories, leaving U.S. taxpayers unwittingly funding the rise of China's economy and military, U.S. Senate investigators said on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 16, 2019
U.S. Supreme Court could reshape industry with ruling on Google, Oracle
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Alphabet Inc.'s Google in a multibillion-dollar clash that has divided Silicon Valley, agreeing to decide whether the company improperly used copyrighted programming code owned by Oracle Corp. in the Android operating system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2019
Rich and poor debate treaty on plant gene data as climate change hits crops
Ahead of renewed negotiations to revise a global treaty in Rome on Monday, rich and poor countries are at loggerheads over how to share genetic plant data that could help breed crops better able to withstand climate change.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 12, 2019
Tesla to Apple: Help us nail thief who took robocar secrets to China start-up
Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. both suspect they were betrayed by driverless technology engineers who defected to the same Chinese startup.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2019
South Korean studio behind cult game Mir engaged in all-out assault on copycats in China
In The Legend of Mir, warriors and sorcerers battle creatures from an ancient universe. Now, WeMade Co.'s longtime video game hit is at the center of a string of legal battles that could serve as a rallying cry for foreign companies harboring grievances against Chinese rivals.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 11, 2019
Chinese employees stole corporate secrets from Dutch semiconductor maker, newspaper reports
Chinese employees stole corporate secrets from Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, Dutch financial newspaper Financieele Dagblad (FD) reported on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Feb 24, 2019
Thirty years after U.S. curbs on exports to China were eased, two giants' politics and tech collide
"U.S. eases curbs on exports to China" read a Reuters headline on March 1, 1989, when Washington lifted long-standing restrictions on technology shipments to China.
BUSINESS
Feb 9, 2019
U.S.-China trade talks set to resume, focusing on intellectual property
U.S. negotiators are preparing to press China on long-standing demands that it reform how it treats American companies' intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from rising on Chinese imports.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2019
U.S.-China trade talks making scant progress on make-or-break intellectual property problem
Ever since negotiators from the United States and China sat down in Beijing after a Christmas meltdown in global markets, Donald Trump has sought to calm investors and claim his trade talks are making great strides. But that glosses over a more uncomfortable reality.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2018
Behind the myth of China's great technology grab
The issue of forced transfers is overstated. Carmakers know how to safeguard their most advanced know-how.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2018
The intellectual property front in the U.S.-China trade war
Just how sustainable will U.S. 'lawfare' efforts be in protecting American intellectual property?
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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