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New office set up to take over IPR responsibilities
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SHANGHAI’S free trade zone has set up an office to unify regulations and enhance protection of intellectual property rights.
It is taking over responsibility for management and law enforcement of patents, trademarks and copyrights that has previously been regulated by different government departments.
Only Customs will retain its oversight of intellectual property violations at borders.
“It is a common international practice to unify management of patents, trademarks and copyrights,” the zone’s management committee said in a statement.
“Such practice will encourage the creation, application and protection of intellectual property rights in China,” it added.
Lu Guoqiang, head of the new office, said that setting up the office marked a breakthrough in intellectual property rights protection as it was a completely independent entity.
Lu is also the head of Shanghai Intellectual Property Office.
Ding Wenlian, a Shanghai High Court official said yesterday that the court in the zone had heard 32 intellectual property rights cases between last November and May.
In addition, Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court had heard 11 zone-related intellectual property cases.
The total number of such cases rose 77 percent from the same period in the previous year, and a third of them concerned a foreign entity, Ding said.
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