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Opinions on Encouraging and Guiding the Development of Emerging Strategic Industry for Private Enterprises

The National Development and Reform Commission released the Opinions on Encouraging and Guiding the Developent of Emerging Strategic Industry for Private Enterprises recently, which contains several major areas including industry policy, finance to encourage private enterprises to develop emerging strategic industry.

Under the opinions, great efforts should be made to encourage companies to develop services including IT, biotechnology, E commerce, digital content, R&D design, IPR and Hi-Tech commercialization. The opinions also require to support the companies' participation in strategic new industry police making, improving innovation capacity and technology commercialization.

2011-08-25

Core Technology Standard Project Files over 300 Patent Applications

According to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), core technology stadard project, one of the national technological development plans organized by AQSIQ during the 11th Five-year Plan period, had been approved by an expert panel. In its R&D process, 317 patent applications derived from the project were filed.

The project developed 42 international standards, 336 national standards and 173 industry standards. Deemed as nice surprises, the project also filed 8 patent applications via PCT and 25 computer software copyright registrations.

2011-08-25

Six Persons on Probation for Distributing Fake Goods

Shanghai Pudong District People's Court rendered a judgment on a group of IPR infringement cases and six defendants were sentenced recently.

The infringing products were sold in three Shanghai markets with LV、GUCCI、CHANEL、ROLEX、LONGINES、OMEGA、BVLGARI、IWC、PRADA、Cartier and other symbols on bags, belts, wallets, keytainers, watches, jewelries and lighters. From the six convicts, authorities seized from 187 to 1,053 pieces of infringing goods with a value spanning from 900,000 yuan to 7.5 million yuan .

The six defendants were sentenced from 8 months to two years and six months in prison and fined 15,000 yuan to 80,000 yuan respectively. Taking into consideration their confession and one convict's turning himself in to authority, the court allowed all of them to be on probation.

2011-08-25

Core Technology Standard Project Files over 300 Patent Applications

According to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), core technology stadard project, one of the national technological development plans organized by AQSIQ during the 11th Five-year Plan period, had been approved by an expert panel. In its R&D process, 317 patent applications derived from the project were filed.

The project developed 42 international standards, 336 national standards and 173 industry standards. Deemed as nice surprises, the project also filed 8 patent applications via PCT and 25 computer software copyright registrations.

2011-08-25

Cross-strait Cooperation in IPR Sees Progress

The cross-strait cooperation in IPR protection including patent, trademark, copyright, new varieties of plants and certificates of origin fares well since the two sides signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) and an agreement on intellectual property right protection in June last year.

In the first half of 2011, the mainland received over 700 priority requests for patent and 13 for trademark by Taiwan compatriots; Taiwan also received over 400 priority requests for patent and 16 for trademark from mainland; 12 of the well-known trademarks determined by the mainland's Trademark Office under the State Administration for Industry and Commerce are from Taiwan. Based on a specific arrangement for the patent bar exam released in last July, for the first time, the mainland exam is open to Taiwan residents, the first group of 234 Taiwan residents have signed up to test their luck this year.

In recent years, cooperation in IPR protection across the Taiwan Straits becomes more closely. In 2010, the mainland received 22,419 patent applications and 10,767 applications for trademark registration filed by Taiwan enterprises while Taiwan also received 755 patent applications and 1,603 applications for trademark registration filed from mainland.

2011-08-25

Self-reliant Brands Responsible for 30% Export of Mechanical and Electronic Products

The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Commerce and seven other departments jointly issued the Opinion on Bolstering Development of Mechanical and Electronic Products Export in the 12th Five-Year recently. Under the Opinions, efforts should be striven to promote the export of self-reliant brands of mechanical and electronic products by bolstering IPR and enable the export of self-owned brand of mechanical and electronic products to take up 30% of all the outbound goods.

Duing the 11th Five-Year, the export for mechanical and electronic products maintained fast growth which doubled the scale of that in the 10th Five-Year; the structure was further improved that hi-tech mechanical and electronic products represented over 50% of the total export; the export share of products with IPR also steadily increased. As of 2010, mechanical and electronic products had remained the top type of exported goods for 16 years.

2011-08-25