Recently, the internationally leading research institution Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition commissioned the German specialist academic bookseller Galda+Leuchter GmbH (G+L Scientific Bookseller) to acquire from SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS the English-language professional monograph Intellectual Property Protection for Video Games in China, written by lawyer Weijie Zhu. The book will be added to the Institute’s collection.
This acquisition carries particular professional significance. The inclusion of the book in the specialist literature collection of a leading international intellectual-property research institution means that research arising from Chinese intellectual-property judicial practice and professional scholarship is entering the research horizon of a high-level international institution, while also creating a new route for the international dissemination of Chinese professional research.
For Weijie Zhu, the acquisition and collection of her research by an internationally leading research institution carries substantial professional-recognition and international-dissemination value. It signifies not only that a monograph has entered the collection of an overseas professional institution, but also that her accumulated work in Chinese intellectual-property practice and research has received the attention of, and been collected by, a high-level international research institution. In the source article, this is presented as a professionally significant and symbolic form of international recognition.
For SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS, the collection purchase by an internationally leading research institution is another positive result of its efforts to bring Chinese professional research into international channels of specialist communication. The Press will continue to act as an international publishing and professional-dissemination platform, connecting research of professional value with a wider range of overseas academic institutions, research organisations and specialist readers.
A Leading International Intellectual-Property Research Institution: Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition is part of the German Max Planck Society and is a highly influential specialist research institution in the fields of international intellectual-property law, competition law and innovation research.
Its predecessor was established in 1966 under the name Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law. Over six decades, the Institute has conducted sustained foundational research in intellectual-property and competition law and has developed deep academic expertise in these fields.
According to the Institute’s own description, its long-term research has supported and informed major legislative and institutional developments in Germany, Europe and at the international level. The Max Planck Society to which it belongs is one of Germany’s most representative organisations for fundamental research, and the research community within the Society has, in aggregate, included 31 Nobel laureates.
For these reasons, the source article characterises Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition not as an ordinary university research centre, but as a specialist institution with a high level of international influence in intellectual-property law, competition law and innovation research.
German Specialist Academic Bookseller: Galda+Leuchter
The purchase was handled by the German specialist academic bookseller Galda+Leuchter GmbH (G+L Scientific Bookseller).
Founded in 1985, Galda+Leuchter has long been engaged in the procurement and supply of scientific and academic publications. It primarily provides specialist academic literature services to universities, research institutions and professional libraries and also handles the procurement and supply of international scholarly publications.
In this instance, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition commissioned Galda+Leuchter to purchase the book from SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS, with the book ultimately to be held in the Institute’s collection.
About Intellectual Property Protection for Video Games in China
Intellectual Property Protection for Video Games in China, written by Weijie Zhu and published by SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS in 2026, is a professional monograph that systematically examines the legal framework and judicial practice of intellectual-property protection for video games in China.
Based on the development of China’s video-game industry and its judicial practice, the book provides a systematic study of copyright, trademark rights, unfair competition and related intellectual-property issues affecting video games. By examining the Chinese legal framework, adjudicative rules and representative practical issues, it presents the development path and judicial practice of intellectual-property protection for video games in China.
The book had previously entered the collection of the National Library of Singapore. Its further acquisition by a German specialist academic bookseller for the collection of Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition means that the book is moving from a national-library public-documentation system into the research literature collection of a leading international specialist institution in intellectual property.
About the Author
Weijie Zhu is a PRC lawyer, a California attorney, a patent agent and an LL.M. graduate of the National University of Singapore. She has more than ten years of legal-practice experience and has long been engaged in both theoretical research and practical work in intellectual-property law.
In 2023, her Chinese-language professional monograph Practical Analysis of Adjudication Standards in Intellectual Property Disputes was published by Law Press China. The book systematically examined adjudication standards and judicial practice in Chinese intellectual-property disputes, covering copyright, trademarks, patents, unfair competition, trade secrets, online games, data and other frontier issues.
In 2026, her professional monograph Intellectual Property Protection for Video Games in China was published by SINGAPORE-LAW-PRESS, providing a systematic study of intellectual-property protection for video games in China. The book’s forthcoming inclusion in the collection of Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition further places research developed through her long-term experience in Chinese intellectual-property practice within an international professional research and academic-dissemination environment.
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