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Roger Greatrex
Roger Greatrex was appointed professor in Chinese Studies at Lund University in March 2000. He took his doctorate in Sinology at Stockholm University in 1987 and taught thereafter for several years at Lund University. In 1996 he was appointed to be the European Director for the European Union-China Higher Education Cooperation Programme and was stationed in Peking for five years. When the programme reached its completion, he was appointed in 2002 to be Director of the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, the position that he currently holds. His research interests encompass contemporary and pre-modern topics. In the field of contemporary Chinese studies, he focuses on IPR-related issues, and specifically on trademark law. In his pre-modern studies, Roger Greatrex works on the history of Chinese administrative and criminal law, particularly in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as on Sino-Tibetan relations and the historical development of travel in China. He has published on a wide range of topics, including gambling legislation in the Song dynasty, the Jinchuan War, and the introduction of steamship technology to China and Japan in the mid-nineteenth century, and serves on several editorial boards, as well as editing the series Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies at Lund University.
Current Projects:
Chinese Trademark Law in the 21st Century, with particular focus on Zhejiang Province
To sustain its economic growth over the coming decades, China and its firms must innovate. According to recent statistics, there are indications that Chinese innovation has reached a new threshold with more than 300,000 patent applications submitted in 2003, among which there were for the first time more domestic invention applications than foreign invention applications. However, nearly 70% of the invention patents were granted to foreign firms, demonstrating that there is clearly room for advancement by Chinese enterprises. Nevertheless, 99% of the less rigorously examined utility model patents were granted to domestic firms. New innovations, even at the level of utility model patents, result in new products and these are trademarked, advertised and offered for sale on the aggressively competitive Chinese market. This project examines the innovation-marketplace interface and deals with Chinese IPR and trademark legislation in practice. The selection of Zheijiang province as the prime focus of interest is for two reasons, namely that Zhejiang is known, not unfairly, as the epicentre for the production of fake products in China, and that in 2003 Zhejiang courts dealt with 38,175 trademark cases, a figure which dwarfs that for Shanghai courts (22,766), edges out Guangdong province (37,057), and is second only to the massive figure of 245,983 cases heard in Beijing courts that year. These figures clearly indicate that trademark infringement is a serious problem in Zhejiang. In the project, the ongoing development of Chinese trademark legislation, problems concerning registration procedure, transfer and licensing, and the reasoning and various sanctions against trademark infringement handed down by Chinese courts are under study.
Counterfeiting and Counterfeiters in Late Imperial China: Criminal Action and Legal Prosecution
This project deals with the crime of counterfeiting in the Qing dynasty. The principal sources used are Qing dynasty compilations of cases such as the Lie'an quanji and Cheng'an huibian, and archival materials, comprising both routine or tiben memorials and documents received by the Imperial Household, stored in the Chinese National Archives in Beijing. The project focuses on the eighteenth century, but does pay attention to relevant cases occurring in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. The project is carried out in collaboration with the research group on Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900, jointly managed by the University of Tübingen and Bochum University. Consultation of the materials stored in the Chinese National Archives has been rendered possible by financial support received from the Carl Fredrik Lyngby Foundation.
Publication:
'Layers of Deception: Counterfeiting Cases in the Mid-Qing', in Metals, Monies, and Markets in Early Modern Societies: East Asian and Global Perspectives, Hirzel, Thomas & Kim, Nanny eds., Tübinger Ostasiatische Forschungen, Band 17, Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2008: 309-331.
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