China to Improve Services in IPR Protection to Serve Chinese Enterprises in Going Global
At the regular policy briefing of the State Council, Zhang Zhicheng, Director of the Protection Department of the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), said that China had set up a National Guidance Center for Handling Overseas Intellectual Property Disputes, to build a national channel for collecting and publishing information on overseas intellectual property (IP) disputes and to provide guidance and assistance to Chinese enterprises in dealing with these disputes. Relevant services would be started in the near future.
Zhang said that in recent years, as China continued to open up to the outside world, enterprises encountered an increasing number of IP disputes and lawsuits in their efforts to go global. He believed that there were many reasons—first, enterprises did not understand overseas systems and legal procedures; second, they were not familiar with relevant information and foreign languages; third, they did not know which professional institutions to turn to, making it difficult for them to defend their rights. overseas.
According to Zhang, the establishment of this national guidance center would meet the needs of Chinese enterprises, and was an important measure to optimize business environment and deepen the reform of delegating power, improving regulation and upgrading services. The goal was to focus on problems in dealing with overseas IP disputes and to speed up putting in place a guidance and assistance mechanism for Chinese enterprises.
The guidance center had two main tasks and functions: the first was to serve as a “server” to strengthen international cooperation in IPR protection and provide guidance and services to enterprises in safeguarding their rights overseas; the second was to act as a “loudspeaker” to further popularize IP information of other countries and help Chinese enterprises comprehensively understand and respect IP rules and systems of countries outside China, and to play the role of a "booster" for enterprises to enhance their ability regarding IP. Zhang said that in the future, enterprises and the public with relevant needs could seek help from the center through three channels— online platform, telephone and window.
“Going forward, we will continue to pay attention to this issue and intensify our efforts to support “going-global” enterprises in IPR gaining and protection, enhance their risk prevention and control capability, and promote the effective protection of Chinese enterprises' rights and interests regarding intellectual property in the world," said Zhang Zhicheng.
September 5, 2019
Source: Economic Information Daily
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