Amid a patent boom and increase in patent infringement cases, China is a fast-growing catch-up country in the intellectual property (IP) regime, with arguments on effectiveness and standardization. In 2014, China installed three intellectual property courts (IPCs) in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzh...
Cities are the foundation of urban life, and these 4 key definitions--global city, metropolis, megacity and megalopolis--help us differentiate their importance.
In this case, it was not necessary because during the lockdown, HCMC residents were made aware that there was a major shortage of delivery riders in the city. Hence, delays were expected and acceptable. 3.2. Data collection HCMC - our research area - is a typical Global South megacity (...
We thus expect that higher number of inflow population from the domestic epicenter in proportion to the city total population results in prolonged length of contagious disease control. H2 The time that a city spent to contain the spread of epidemic is longer when the city has a large economic ...
Given that IP law is the same all over a country, it can be concluded that courts balance national regulation and regional realities. 1 Institute of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China. 2 Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. 3 ...
In this paper, we further show that local transportation modes with similar expectations of the user (as a driver or not, where “driving” is generalized beyond driving a motor vehicle, which will be explicitly written as such) and modes with similar connectivity requirements each have some sim...
Figure 1. MCMA’s population (in thousands) in 2019. Source: Compiled by the authors using official data from state, municipal, and locality boundary files from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI). The metropolitan-wide transport network is mainly compo...