Sino-US seminar on trademark law promotes exchanges and cooperation in trademark law practice between the two sides.

2024年1月1日 | admin | fdg
Zhongxin. com, Guangzhou, December 19 (Wang Jian, Li Songyu) According to the news of Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Center on the 19th, following the international seminar on judicial protection of intellectual property rights and the latest development forum in China-EU trademark field, the Sino-US trademark law and practice seminar was also held in Guangzhou recently.
Seminar site. Photo courtesy of the conference organizing Committee
The seminar was hosted by China National Intellectual Property Administration International Cooperation Department, American Lawyers CNIPA Liaison Committee, Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Administration (Intellectual Property Office), and undertaken by Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Center. Introduce the latest progress of Chinese and American trademark laws and regulations to Chinese and American legal circles, intellectual property practitioners, export-oriented enterprises and cross-border e-commerce, and exchange practical operations of trademark application, rights acquisition and rights protection between the two countries. Nearly 100 representatives from China and the United States attended.
The organizing committee of the seminar said that the conference further enhanced the exchange and cooperation of trademark law practice between China and the United States, promoted the "soft connection" of legal services in the field of trademarks between China and the United States, and provided new perspectives and new ideas for Guangdong to promote the "preferred place" of international trademark rules convergence, mechanism docking highland and international pragmatic cooperation in intellectual property rights, and to create a more market-oriented, legal and international business environment and innovation environment.
Yuan Qi, a first-class inspector of China National Intellectual Property Administration International Cooperation Department, said that intellectual property rights have always been an important part of Sino-US exchanges. China National Intellectual Property Administration has been committed to promoting official and non-governmental intellectual property exchanges and cooperation between China and the United States. The purpose of this seminar is to help Chinese and American users better understand the latest development and practice of intellectual property rights system between China and the United States, exchange and discuss intellectual property issues of common concern, further deepen understanding, enhance mutual trust, and better serve innovation subjects and market subjects.
Liu Jianxin, deputy director of Guangdong Intellectual Property Protection Center and director of Guangzhou Trademark Review and Cooperation Center (Guangdong Intellectual Property Development and Service Center), said that with the guidance and support of China National Intellectual Property Administration, Guangdong has made great efforts to improve its intellectual property policies and regulations system. The docking of trademark legal system provides a new useful reference for Guangdong to better integrate into the overall pattern of international governance of intellectual property rights and better serve the export-oriented enterprises in Guangdong.
In the interactive communication session, the delegates and participants had in-depth discussions on the difficulties in applying for trademarks in the United States, how to confirm whether unregistered trademarks are infringing, and how to deal with trademarks frozen because of lawyers’ qualifications. (End)
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Karajan led Berlin Philharmonic to ＂airborne＂ Beijing’s reform and opening up to promote Chinese and foreign music exchanges

2023年12月26日 | admin | rsfgsdg
In 1979, after the reform and opening-up, super orchestras and performers from Europe and America came one after another within one year. "is like a spring gale, come up in the night" wrote an important chapter in the history of Chinese and foreign music exchanges in the Republic. In October, 1979, karajan, the conductor of the "Emperor", led Berlin Philharmonic to visit China to perform "airborne" Beijing and held three concerts. This orchestra, founded in 1882, has a deep humanistic background in the music town of Germany and Austria. Among the artistic leaders in history, there are the "earliest" professional conductor in the world, Nikisch, who defined the artistic norms of conducting, and the "king" of German conducting circles. Until karajan, the "commanding emperor", recorded a large number of "fever-rated" symphony records with the orchestra, which was synonymous with contemporary symphony performance art and became a "celestial group" in the hearts of symphony lovers. It is unexpected for music lovers to enjoy the concert of "Commanding the Emperor" and symphony "TianTuan" at home.
Author: Bu Dawei
Berlin Philharmonic rehearsed "Bei Qi" with the Central Orchestra. The picture shows Li Delun giving a gift to karajan.
Berlin Philharmonic performed three sets of music: the first set is Mozart’s symphony No.39 and Brahms’ symphony No.1; The second set is dvorak’s Eighth Symphony and Musorgskiy Ravel’s Picture Exhibition. The third set is Beethoven’s fourth symphony and seventh symphony. Through the concert, the audience first realized that Brahms’ symphony was karajan’s and Berlin Philharmonic’s specialty, and it also reflected the orchestra’s style. Everyone is familiar with dvorak’s Ninth Symphony "New World", which is full of Indian music elements and black music elements, while the Eighth Symphony was somewhat unpopular at that time, but after listening to Berlin Philharmonic’s performance, we found that the composer’s symphony still had another fresh interest. Listening to Musorgskiy Ravel’s "Picture Exhibition" and "The Gate of Kiev" at the scene, the bass part of the orchestra’s strings is full of heavy texture, and the bass part of the brass pipe is powerful, which merges into an overwhelming sound wave, which is very shocking, so as to appreciate the legendary "heavy bass of the German-Austrian orchestra", and this sound effect is not heard from the record. Karajan had an operation on his spine, but he dragged a limp leg and moved slowly when he went on the court. Just like what he said in his self-report, this is the longest road in the world. Everyone knows that karajan in the image is called "the blind man directs", thinking that it is to increase the effect of the lens. This time, when he saw the live performance, he kept his eyes closed. Although karajan is expressionless and sculptural, unlike Seiji Ozawa, his music is still moving.The command action is simple, but the music content is extremely rich.
At the concert in China, the original second oboe in the orchestra played the first part instead of the chief oboe who came back from an accidental injury, and played perfectly. He was albrecht Meyer, who served as the chief oboe in the abbado era. However, the first Bassoon "mixed garlic" in the passage of a fast scale in the fourth movement of Beethoven’s fourth symphony, and almost "overturned". The master performer of "Tiantuan" will also have "Waterloo", which is the cruelty of performing arts. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is that Berlin Philharmonic performed on the same stage with the Central Orchestra. This is the first time that the Central Orchestra performed side by side with the world super orchestra within one year after performing on the same stage with Boston Symphony Orchestra in March. Symphony orchestras in China began to establish new playing concepts and methods. After the music ended, the musicians of the two countries were very excited, shaking hands with each other, and the audience was even more excited, but no matter how enthusiastic the applause was, they didn’t perform it. I heard that this is a rule in karajan. The concert didn’t take place in the Capital Gymnasium where Seiji Ozawa and Boston Symphony Orchestra performed, but in the Beijing Gymnasium in the South City, which was taken by the orchestra’s front-stop staff, and a soundboard was made and placed on the back of the orchestra, with much better acoustics than the Capital Gymnasium. Since then, this kind of soundboard has been widely used in many concerts in China. At the concert, the accompanying family members of Berlin Philharmonic arranged to sit in the corner of the venue facing the conductor, which was also a "landscape" for the audience in China.
Unexpectedly, there was something wrong with the "airborne" when the special plane of the orchestra arrived. When the Capital Airport didn’t have a high enough gangway to connect with it, a spliced and heightened gangway was leaned in a hurry. As a result, the chief oboe walked out of the hatch and fell to the ground two stories high, and a member behind him had a heart attack. karajan was angered by this accident at the beginning of getting off the plane. At the concert, karajan, unlike Seiji Ozawa, was not tolerant of the China audience who were late, and his face was sad. In fact, there are different views on karajan’s manner within the orchestra. Helmut Stern, one of the two directors of Berlin Philharmonic and the managing director of the orchestra, thinks this is a kind of "cultural discrimination". He also believes that karajan’s pursuit of "sound" is that "the composer’s intention is covered by the beauty of sound, and sometimes even wrongly reversed, becoming his own opposite."
The orchestra’s visit to China became Helmut’s nostalgic trip. Helmut Ernst was a German Jew. At the age of 8, his family fled from Berlin to Harbin to escape the persecution of the Nazis. In Harbin, he began to learn the violin, and studied under the "godfather" of Harbin, the exiled Russian Jewish violinist Tlach Ginberg. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to Palestine and was admitted to Berlin Philharmonic. At the Capital Airport, when he stepped into the terminal building, he could speak Chinese, and found violinists Yang Muyun and Fan Shengkuan among the colleagues of the Central Orchestra who came to welcome him. They were all classmates and brothers in Harbin that year. After the performance in Beijing, Helmut left the team to pay a return visit to Harbin, his "hometown" when he was a teenager, and came to his old home. "I suddenly saw a corner of the curtain that my mother brought from Berlin 35 years ago on a window. I really couldn’t help it, and my tears flowed out. " Just like Seiji Ozawa’s affection for Beijing, his childhood hometown, Helmut is also nostalgic for Harbin and has made contributions to the music industry here. The phrase "Music has no borders" is really everywhere.
Karajan and Berlin Philharmonic’s concerts in Beijing are of high specifications and high level, which have met people’s artistic expectations. At the end of 1970s, the performance of this classical concert reached a peak, so their visit to China can be called a peak trip. Karajan’s visit to China by Berlin Philharmonic was not as political as that of Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra before, but because of their position in western classical music, it played an invisible role in promoting China’s entry into WTO. With the deepening of reform and opening up, more and more classical music performance groups and individuals from abroad have entered the normalization.
(Original title: karajan and Berlin Philharmonic’s peak trip in Beijing)
Source: Beijing Evening News
Editor: TF016
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Pope： ＂This is war and this is terrorism.＂

2023年12月26日 | admin | fdsfsd
According to Vatican News and CNN, the official news websites of the Holy See, on December 17, local time, Pope Francis condemned Israel’s bombing and sniper of "unarmed civilians" in Gaza during a prayer activity, and said that "this is war and this is terrorism".
According to reports, Francis called for an end to the war in Gaza in his prayers, and especially prayed for Christians hiding in the Catholic parish of Sagrada Familia in Gaza. On December 16th, Israel attacked the area, and an Israeli sniper was accused of killing Nahida Khalil Anton and samar, a mother and daughter who had taken refuge in Sagrada Familia Church. Since the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out, most Christian families in Gaza have taken refuge here.
The Patriarchate of Latin Rites in Jerusalem issued a statement saying that when the gunfire rang, the mother and daughter were walking from Sagrada Familia Church to the convent of nuns. "One of them was killed while trying to take the other to safety". The Patriarchate oversees the Catholic Church in Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.
The statement said that the Israeli sniper also shot and wounded seven other people who tried to protect other people in the church. "(The Israeli army) did not issue any warning or provide any notice. They were shot in cold blood in the parish, where there were no combatants."
On December 17th, Pope Francis delivered a speech at a prayer service/AFP.
"I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza," Francis said in a prayer activity on the 17th. "Unarmed people have become targets of bombing and sniper attacks. This happened in the Sagrada Familia church building area, where there are no’ terrorists’, only families, children, patients, disabled people and nuns."
Francis also mentioned the attack on Mother Teresa’s monastery in this area. According to the statement of the Latin Ritual Patriarchate in Jerusalem, shells fired by Israeli tanks hit the monastery, destroying the generator and fuel supply of the building and making a building accommodating 54 disabled people uninhabitable.
In response to the destruction and casualties caused by the Israeli army in the region, Francis said: "Some people say:’ This is terrorism, this is war’, yes, this is war, this is terrorism."
This is not the first time Francis has used the word "terrorism" in this round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict. According to Reuters’s previous report, on November 22nd, after meeting with the families of Israeli detainees and Palestinians with families in Gaza, Francis said, "What happened here has transcended war, this is not war, this is terrorism".
Francis’s remarks at that time were criticized by many Jewish groups, including the American Jewish Committee (AJC). These Jewish groups believe that Francis’s remarks jointly condemn both sides of the conflict and accuse them of confusing Israel’s "self-defense" with the "aggression" of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
In 2020, a man decorated a Christmas tree in Sagrada Familia parish in Gaza/AFP
The IDF denied the allegations that civilians were killed or injured in Sagrada Familia Church. According to the Washington Post, the Israeli army issued a statement on the 17th, saying that "no reports of attacks on churches or civilian casualties have been received", and "the review of the investigation results of IDF operations supports this point".
Issa Antoun, a relative of the deceased, described the scene when his mother and sister were attacked to the Washington Post. He said that after the mother and daughter left, screams came from the courtyard of the church.
"We immediately ran out and saw that my sister was hit by a sniper’s bullet below her ear. She fell face down on the ground, and my mother was lying on her back a few meters away, "Issa Antong described." We rushed to save her, and snipers opened fire on us, injuring my two children. "
He added, "This is not the first time that the church has been attacked since the beginning of the war, but the sixth time." "As I speak, bulldozers are closing the door of the church and blocking it with a bunch of cars in the street."
Layla Moran, a British parliamentarian, also said that her family was one of hundreds of civilians trapped in Sagrada Familia Church. As the situation continued to deteriorate, her family faced "extreme despair and fear". Moran said that her family can’t get water or food, "there are still a few days before death" and "I’m not sure if they can live to Christmas".
Moran also said that his family reported that the courtyard of the church was attacked by "white phosphorus bombs and bullets", and the garbage collector and janitor had been shot. "The body is lying outside and no one has cleaned it up so far."
According to data released by the health department of the Gaza Strip in Palestine on the 18th, since the outbreak of a new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel on October 7th, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused 19,453 Palestinian deaths and more than 52,000 injuries.
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