Chinese National Overseas Center for Dealing with IP Disputes

The Chinese National Overseas Center for Dealing with IP Disputes (the centre) was set up on July 10, guided by the Department of Intellectual Property Protection of CNIPA.

The center will focus on creating national-level channels for informational collection and publication, establishing guidance and resolution mechanism pertaining to IP disputes for Chinese enterprises and raising awareness as China is bringing its opening-up policy to a new level by building a new open economic system, its domestic companies are confronted with more overseas disputes and litigation.

“It is both timely and imperative to set up the center that shows China’s determination to deepen reforms to streamline administration, delegate powers, and improve regulation and services and that carries companies’ aspiration to go global,” said CNIPA commissioner Gan Shaoning.

“The center should play its role as a ‘server’ that protects legal rights, a ‘loud speaker’ that propagates overseas rules and also a ‘propeller’ that strengthens IP capacity, letting more and more Chinese companies realize, respect and make good use of other countries’ IP regulations,” he added.

According to Lu Peng, vice chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), multinational companies in developed countries are increasingly utilizing IP and compliance troubles to vie with their competitors. As the largest organization of its kind, CCPIT looks to deepen cooperation with CNIPA in better handling overseas IP disputes.

August 5, 2019

Source: China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)

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