Good afternoon. Welcome to this week's IP Cafe. I'm Fino. Now let's take a cup of coffee and enjoy the five minutes of latest IP news with me.
Quick look at the headlines:
· China launches English platform for COVID-19-related patent information
· Customs Seizes 24 Million Items Violating IP Rights
· China Literature shuffles personnel, looking to the future
· Huawei and InterDigital agree licence, end patent litigation
First, there are more information about the concerning COVID-19
China's National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) has launched an online platform to provide English patent information related to COVID-19 for scientists and the public.
The platform was jointly developed by the China Patent Information Center and the Patent Examination Cooperation (Beijing) Center, two bureaus under the CNIPA.
Website visitors can read more than 7,000 pieces of Chinese and foreign patent information related to epidemic prevention, mainly in the fields of drugs, diagnostic reagents, medical equipment, protective products, medical disinfectants, waste treatment, artificial intelligence and big data applications. Access to the website is free of charge.
It also offers scientists and research institutions data analysis reports about the latest patent achievements in COVID-19 research.
The English website of the platform is https://ncp.patentstar.cn/en/.
Then let’s take a look at the fruitful result gained by the Chinese Customs.
According to a statement released by Guangdong Customs on April 26, they have seized more than 24 million illegal commodities that infringed on intellectual property rights in 2019.
The infringing goods mainly included boxes, bags, footwear, clothing and electronic equipment and most were investigated and found to have infringed on trademarks and patent rights, the statement said.
Customs' crackdown on infringing commodities has helped protect the intellectual property rights of 359 companies and individuals from 104 nations and regions and helped further cultivate new competitive advantages in the China's foreign trade industry, the statement said.
Despite the achievement, Guangdong Customs promised customs officers they will not relax their vigilance in cracking down on IP infringement cases and more special campaigns and actions will be launched in the months ahead.
With the World Book and Copyright Day just passed, tech-driven digital reading gains more momentum in China.
The top domestic online literature site, China Literature, just announced a leadership reshuffle on Monday 27, April, as the company plans to focus on better commercializing literary content, combining technologies and other business modes under the umbrella of its parenting company, Tencent.
In a statement, the company said the call for deepened integration of web-based literature and other entertainment forms like TV series, comics and gaming has become more pressing. Wu has chosen to step aside amid the transition, giving leeway to better promote the company's business, technological, intellectual property and ecological construction that accords with more future-facing business roles.
With five years of development, China Literature has 8.1 million content curators, 12.2 million literary works and hundreds of millions of users.
It seems to be a busy week for the Chinese leading technology company Huawei.
US wireless and mobile technology company InterDigital said on Tuesday 28 of April, it has reached a global non-exclusive patent license agreement with Huawei Technologies authorising the Chinese telecommunication giant to use some of its patents on Huawei’s products, putting an end to years of legal disputes between the two companies.
Coincidentally, non-practising entity Unwired Planet, and Huawei are holding serious settlement talks this past week to settle all patent disputes. According to sources, both parties have reached a settlement and ended their 7-year-long disputes in Europe.
That's for this week's news. For more IP events in China, please visit www.chinaiptoday.com. See you next Friday and enjoy the long Labour Day vacation
