The war of words -- and lawsuits -- between China's and Taiwan's semiconductor industries continues. This time its China's SMIC that is suing TSMC in a Bejing court for alleged "unfair competition" and "commercial defamation"...   more »

London-listed Music Copyright Solutions has set up an Asian subsidiary to acquire, manage and administer ownership of music in China. The timing is somewhat unfortunate, coming just a week after EU trade commisioner Peter Mandelson singled out the country's continuing IPR abuses of intangibles like television and music rights...   more »

Peter Mandelson, the European Union's headline-grabbing trade minister, is on a five-day trip to China and he does not like what he has seen. To be precise, he does not like the abundant evidence that Chinese officials continues to turn a blind eye to the blatant disregard of European intellectual property rights in China...   more »

Microsoft is licencing some pre-commercial technologies to two Chinese software start-ups in a move that shows Chinese companies are prepared to take IPR protection seriously, according to the US giant...   more »

Latest results from SMIC, China's largest chip company, show a Q3 loss on soft global demand. I keep wondering why China feels it needs to be a major player in the cut-throat semiconductor foundry business. Particularly as its now faces a lawsuit from Taiwan's TSMC...   more »