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Sports and cartoon brands team up in licensing deal

Care Bears badminton products show power of crossover branding

IP Entertainment

More than 400 exhibitors attend BIP Asia, E-Day

Successful IP, innovation events strengthen Hong Kong’s trading hub status

IP (Intellectual ...Innovation and Te...

Forum to reimagine IP creation and protection

Focus on arts commercialisation in ASEAN, AI impact on copyrights

Design IP

CoComelon owner Moonbug licenses IP for teaching aids in Hong Kong

Moonbug Entertainment, an international children's media company, has licensed one of its most popular properties – CoComelon – for use in an English course in Hong Kong.

Entertainment Success Story IP Licensing Media

Licensing Show creates cross-industry business opportunities

April welcomed the return of the HKTDC’s long-standing Hong Kong International Licensing Show (HKILS), which drew over 320 exhibitors and showcased an extensive array of more than 550 brands and licensing projects.

Design Licensing Art IP

HKTDC boosts entertainment industry collaboration

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council's (HKTDC) Hong Kong International Film and Television Market (FILMART) promoted cross-regional exchanges this year, including cooperation between the HKTDC and Thailand, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other regions. Key production houses also leveraged the event’s platform to establish connections with potential partners and customers in overseas markets.

Entertainment Leisure Cinema IP Licensing

Hong Kong innovator offers new Monopoly entertainment experience

The diverse intellectual property and licensing business in Hong Kong is integrated into many fields beyond information technology. Brand licensing helps owners develop creative products and services and brings new business opportunities.

Leisure Marketing IP Copyright

IP essential tool for air purification technology

Innovation and technology are important engines for economic and enterprise development.

IP Innovation Environmental pro...

Can-do Hong Kong expands

Ambitious people seeking a can-do city have streamed to Hong Kong for many years, making the city a magnet for talent. This talent magnet is now expanding more than 10 times in size and strength as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area opens up to world business.

Investment Logistics IP

Collectibles boost IP role in toy industry

Anime, TV drama and movie characters attract millions of enthusiasts around the world. Copyright owners, through intellectual property sales and licensing, repackage and design characters to create a variety of trendy products, including this year’s hottest range, collectible toys.

Marketing Sourcing IP innovation

Sport manga draws Kuala Lumpur shoppers

Love at first sight could aptly describe the relationship between MyTOWN Shopping Centre (MyTOWNKL) in Malaysia and the Universal Basketball League (UBL) in Hong Kong.

IP Marketing

Melbourne hosts medical innovators

Melbourne is one of the most liveable cities in the world with a strong creative and design culture, attracting design companies, studios, manufacturers and research institutions to establish an active creative community.

Australia IP Health Medical products

Summer brings family fun

For many years Hong Kong families have marked one date in high-summer on their calendars, that being a day in Book Fair week; and recently two more events – Sports and Leisure Expo and World of Snacks – have ensured that it is a triple mark.

Books & Printed I...Hong Kong Entertainment Leisure ICT Food Health Design IP

ChicHK wows Shenzhen shoppers

Hong Kong has long been a shopper’s paradise drawing people from all over the world for retail therapy and over the past two decades the fastest growing segment has been consumers from nearby parts of Mainland China.

Design Services Hong Kong Mainland China Fashion IP Clothing Leisure Food

Digitisation brings liquidity to high-value market

In spring this year Hong Kong’s art community celebrated the end of travel restrictions by holding an “art spring”, with exhibitions and cultural events including Art Basel (main picture), Art Central, HK Walls and other art collective events at venues such as the Tai Kwun and the Fringe Club.

Design Services Hong Kong Art IP Design